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14 January, 2022

Memento Mori – The making of a Zine – By George Griffin

By George G

The Industrial Revolution changed the world forever. The coming of mechanised production was a shift from a mainly agricultural society to a technological one. London was the fi...

28 December, 2021

Trying Concert Photography on Film – By Billy Sanford

By Billy Sanford

I’ve been making photographs for most of my life. The first three decades on film, but it was always the traditional usage – family trips, memories with friends, special occasio...

14 December, 2021

Breaking Digital Habits and Relearning Film With a Leica IIIf – By Christopher DellaCorte

By Christopher DellaCorte

This story begins with an afternoon drive through the local countryside accompanied by my spouse. The air was lovely and warm. The skies were clear. The weather was what we expe...

9 December, 2021

A Year in Slide Film Part 1 – Shooting – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

I was originally put off shooting slide film because I had heard that you needed to be incredibly precise with your exposure otherwise the whole shot would be ruined. Frankly, w...

2 December, 2021

Continuing to Learn C-41 Developing – A Learning Journey By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

I promised a couple of commenters on my last article that I would share some of the “normal” images from my first batch of C-41 developing. Now that I’ve also shared some result...

7 November, 2021

Searching for 1950s Motion Picture Aesthetics in my Own Photos – By Ian Do Carmo

By Ian Do Carmo

I often get my inspiration from motion pictures, and as a collector of film stocks I look for mundane things to shoot while experimenting with various films that I can get a hol...

19 September, 2021

My First Time Discovering Film – By Bananciat

By Bananciat

Backed by a probable longing for something more tangible and needing a change from the mindless snapping that it so readily fired via the iphone camera, it was about time for me...

18 August, 2021

Joys and Challenges of Publishing Zines – By Floyd K. Takeuchi

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

I thought I knew a thing or two about publishing a zine. In a previous life, I ran a Honolulu, Hawaii-based media company that published six monthly consumer magazines. We cove...

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