Philosophy & Reflections Archives

3 June, 2020

The Waitress, the Tarantula, the Body in the Bathtub and Why I Had To Buy My Girlfriend a New Pentax

By Gerard Exupery

The amount of damage was difficult for me to comprehend. The first time, trying to put the debacle into perspective, I thought this must be what it is like to fall out of an air...

27 May, 2020

Everything Goes Back to the Beginning – By Marcel Zyskind

By Marcel Zyskind

It’s April 9th 2020; 03.08am. I’m sitting in a small hallway under the stairs leading down to our basement. Here I have a computer set up with my old Nikon 4000 ED scanner...

19 May, 2020

Revisiting and Reflecting on my Photographs from 2012 – by Samuel Hardwick

By Sam Hardwick

Back in 2012, during my time studying Art and Design techniques in College, I had become quite fond of the idea of using cameras for a project I was working on, and had decided ...

10 May, 2020

35mm in the Time of Coronavirus – By Steph Powell

By Stephanie Powell

Our family camera was kept in a sock drawer. It was brought out of the Queen Anne cupboard for family occasions during the 90s. Dad would load the film into the chamber. It woul...

6 May, 2020

Reflecting on Old Photographs – Nathan’s Famous Since 1916 – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

When I was maybe six years old, my father introduced me to Nathan's. We had dropped off his mother at her what was to me dreary apartment. That woman never seemed happy to me, a...

15 April, 2020

Why I might hate these old negatives – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

Pinball machines; depending on your age, you might know all about them. Once, considered so evil that New York City banned them. Wasted youths (juvenile delinquents) spent days ...

23 March, 2020

CoronaVirus isn’t going to stop me Blogging about Cameras and Photography

By Hamish Gill

I’ve spent this last week or so doing all sorts of alien things. We’ve had to make arrangements to temporarily close The Kiln, the coworking space I run, all of my staff at F8 (...

1 March, 2020

Deciding on My Favourite 5 Frames From 2019 (And Maybe A couple of Sneaky Extras) – By Gavin Bain

By GavinBain

I dedicated the month of December 2019 to curating a zine I planned to self publish simply titled "two thousand nineteen". My goal for this zine was to compile my absolute favou...

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