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26 November, 2020

5 Frames Cut from The Summer of ’20 – by Simon King / New Exit Group

By Simon King

In 2019 I co-founded a documentary photography movement with fellow photographers David Babaian, Andrew Blowers and Sagar Kharecha, with the intention of representing local stor...

25 November, 2020

‘Redlands’ by Philip Brookman – A Book Review – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

“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 by chance. I was looking ...

22 September, 2020

Through the (Looking) Glass – Photographing Portraits in the time of COVID-19 – By Carole Evans

By Carole Evans

Through 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 a Hasselblad camera, and...

4 August, 2020

The Colours of Shanghai / How I came to Publish a Photozine of XPAN shots – By Benoît Felten

By Ben Felten

I 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 and 2016. In August ...

31 December, 2018

The Lesser Photographer by CJ Chilvers – a particularly sage photography book

By Hamish Gill

The 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 call it tips, or ma...

27 July, 2018

Hitchcock’s Rear Window – Watching the Watcher – By Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

Rear 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 one-nam...

11 May, 2018

Kodachrome Movie Review – it’s Good Even If it is About Family, Not Film – By Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

Any 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, you might be disappoin...

20 April, 2018

Good night sweetheart & my little rant about toothpaste

By Hamish Gill

Anil Mistry has become a fairly regular contributor to this website, I’ve also met him on a photowalk, joined his Unusual Eyes photo group of his on Facebook, helped him sell so...

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