This year I made a trip to visit a friend for the first time since he'd moved from the UK to Norway. I took my Hasselblad…
Beauty in Photography by Robert Adams – Book Review – By Holly Gilman
December 9, 2020As someone who is an avid reader and collector of books, I am pretty time-poor. I have a job, two young children and a multitude of…
“Why It Does Not Have to Be in Focus” and “Out of Focus”: Pinhole Adventures Part 4 – by Sroyon
November 30, 2020Another Monday, another episode of my Pinhole Adventures series… but this one is a bit different. So far, I’ve mainly focused on designing and building cameras.…
5 Frames Cut from The Summer of ’20 – by Simon King / New Exit Group
November 26, 2020In 2019 I co-founded a documentary photography movement with fellow photographers David Babaian, Andrew Blowers and Sagar Kharecha, with the intention of representing local stories in…
‘Redlands’ by Philip Brookman – A Book Review – By Holly Gilman
November 25, 2020“Our family album is full of beautiful pictures from the beach, but none of them tells the real story.” (Brookman, 2015: p127) I came across this book…
Through the (Looking) Glass – Photographing Portraits in the time of COVID-19 – By Carole Evans
September 22, 2020Through the (Looking) Glass is a series of portraits of my neighbours, taken through their windows during Lockdown 2020. It is shot using slide film, on…
The Colours of Shanghai / How I came to Publish a Photozine of XPAN shots – By Benoît Felten
August 4, 2020I am in the process of publishing (and pre-selling) a zine called The Colours of Shanghai. It collects panoramic XPAN photos taken in Shanghai between 2014…
The Lesser Photographer by CJ Chilvers – a particularly sage photography book
December 31, 2018The lesser photographer, a book by CJ Chilvers, is a reorganised and edited compendium of thoughts about photography taken from his blog. I suppose you could…
Hitchcock’s Rear Window – Watching the Watcher – By Frank H. Wu
July 27, 2018Rear Window is a great movie, and taking photographs is the main character’s essential trait. Francois Truffaut, whose book turned director Alfred Hitchcock the man into…
Kodachrome Movie Review – it’s Good Even If it is About Family, Not Film – By Frank H. Wu
May 11, 2018Any film photographer who saw an advertisement for Kodachrome likely reacted as I did: “Gee, I really should check out that movie.” If you follow through,…