Photstory from Don't Talk To Strangers.

18 August, 2026

Don’t Talk To Strangers

By David Brancaleone

The catalyst: Covid-19 When I was in my twenties, I loved to sketch strangers on buses and trains. When I emigrated to London, I turned my drawings into watercolours, etchings, ...

6 December, 2025

VEIL – a campaign to publish my book

By Lubomir Drapal

When I started shooting film ten years ago, it wasn’t about returning to the past. It wasn’t nostalgia. It was more of an attempt to approach photography differently — without t...

2 August, 2025

Photographers in fiction

By Graham Spinks

I’ve just finished reading Tatjana Soli’s amazing novel The Lotus Eaters which tells the story of a female press photographer documenting the Vietnam war. As so often, I’m somet...

3 March, 2025

Film Camera Zen – Book Review

By Hamish Gill

A little while ago I was contacted by the company promoting Bellamy Hunt’s new book, Film Camera Zen,  asking me if I would like to take a look at a copy for the benefit o...

10 February, 2024

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

By Jonathan Leavitt

The 35mmc site mostly concerns gear and experiences, and I admit to having collected way too many lenses myself. It would take a heart of stone to spend as much time with camera...