Theory & Reflections Archives

A Zeiss-Ikon Tenax I, a box of Kodak ColorPlus film, and a Zeiss-Ikon Taxona in its leather case.

7 December, 2025

5 frames of pulling color film two stops for no good reason

By Christopher Pye

I read plenty about pushing film when I dived into film photography a few years ago: you willingly underexpose your pictures and later compensate in development, leaving the fil...

5 December, 2025

Reflecting on a few of my failures

By Alexandre Kreisman

I’ve seen some very nice posts on this site over the last couple of weeks, Scott Ferguson, Ibraar Hussain and myself even got to start critique about some posts, which I f...

29 November, 2025

A Journey Through 26 Cameras and Expired Film

By Ricardo Andrade

I started shooting analog in 2011, using expired film from the abandoned darkroom at the Microscopy Facility where I work, at the University of the Basque Country. You can read ...

28 November, 2025

I can’t stop scratching

By Alastair Griffiths

It all began in the early summer months of 1966. We were still weeks away from England thrashing Germany to win the World Cup and change the course of history for ever. I was el...

25 November, 2025

Do You Remember That Drunk Dance Thirteen Years Ago?

By Eagle Omomuro

I’ve always felt a kind of disgust toward the trend of full automation and burst shooting. I call it spray and pray. The camera sets the exposure, detects a smile, locks on an e...

18 November, 2025

Memories of J

By Tibra Ali

“Through my lens, I intuitively aim to capture the joy of fleeting moments – it’s not about creating the perfect shot, but instead capturing and preserving a feeling or emotion....

16 November, 2025

On Prizes and Awards (a Long and Tiring Musing)

By Andrea Monti

Prizes and awards are ubiquitous also in the photography world. There is an award for everything, and I wouldn’t be suprised to discover an award for the best photo award ...

Golden Gate Bridge, Étude No. 14, San Francisco, USA. 2022.

15 November, 2025

Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process

By Olivier Desmet

Image above: Golden Gate Bridge, Étude No. 14, San Francisco, USA. 2022. Most analogue photography enthusiasts, in 2025, are digital/analogue hybrid practitioners. Who amongst f...

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