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11 September, 2025

5 Frames on the River Severn with a Rolleiflex 2.8C

By Matthew Bigwood

Last summer I met a friend I hadn’t seen for many years, and we visited a couple of places on the eastern banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire. I took my Rolleiflex 2.8C...

11 September, 2025

The Influence of Film on Film part 2 – Bellows to the Wind

By Lucinda Lewis

Back in 2020 I wrote about my first venture into DIY film making with my short film Preserve. I was asked to contribute to 35mmc and felt it right to talk about the film, and ho...

10 September, 2025

An Asian Lion Guarding an Italian Town – One (plus one) Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

Ofena is a small town located within the Abruzzo National Park of Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, in Italy, Hit by the 2009 earthquake, Ofena is still struggling to recover. L...

A fast-foot restaurant under the JR Yamanote line tracks in Tokyo, Japan.

9 September, 2025

Tokyo At Night – A One-Shot Story

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

The goal of every travel photographer is to capture the essence of a place or a people in a single image. The challenge – beyond the obvious technical issues related to hauling ...

9 September, 2025

My Own Winterreise (Winter Journey)

By Curtis Heikkinen

Some of you interested in classical music might be familiar with the composer Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” for voice and piano depicting a man’s journey through a h...

6 September, 2025

Photographing a Mexican Cartel with a Fuji Instax Mini 12

By Henry Craver

Some background: I’m a photojournalist and a YouTuber. I covered migration and conflict for nearly six years across the Americas and Europe before starting the channel ‘Through ...

4 September, 2025

Capturing Nova Scotia on Film

By David Smith

When I was 21, my parents moved from the hard-hitting, nickel-mining city of Sudbury, Ontario, to the quaint touristy town of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. With little hesitation, I ...

3 September, 2025

5 Frames in Waco, Texas with a Pentax K1000

By Tibra Ali

I spent several years after my PhD working for Baylor University in Waco, Texas; First as a post-doc and then as a lecturer at the Physics Department. Waco is a mid-sized but qu...

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