Theory & Reflections Archives

13 August, 2025

In Search of Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 4

By Scott Ferguson

If you are still reading this deep in my informal and unscientific survey of black and white film stocks, I salute your endurance in following what has evolved from a mild curio...

12 August, 2025

BW x CT x (0,1,2,3)

By Geoff Chaplin

Film photographers are smart and thoughtful so you have probably already worked out what the title means, but for those who’ve just joined from planet digital this is a test of ...

9 August, 2025

TLR Challenge: My Conclusions

By Geoff Chaplin

It’s about a year since I set myself a challenge to use a TLR regularly over the year and shoot at least 50 rolls of film. So, while it’s time to reach some conclusions, I must ...

9 August, 2025

Exploring the Dreamlands of Sony World Photography Award Winner Marjolein Martinot

By Ibraar Hussain

During times of darkness and moments of deep turmoil in her personal life, Dutch photographer and mother of six, Marjolein Martinot, found herself lost, searching for a r...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By David Pauley

I want to start by thanking my fellow Brooklyner and 35mmc contributor Scott Ferguson for inviting me to join him in a new twist on a “Five Frames” presentation wher...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By Scott Ferguson

By way of introduction, fellow contributor David Pauley and I are doing a variation on the “Five Frames” post where I will be leading a conversation about five frames of David’s...

19 July, 2025

Meeting Jamel Shabazz – in which a chance encounter turns into a Master Class in street portraiture

By Scott Ferguson

Photographing people is easy in an urban setting like New York because they are everywhere. Getting good shots of people, maybe not so easy. In my early days of trying to shoot...

19 July, 2025

On Film Simulation or ‘is fiction more real than reality, and why should we care?’

By Andrea Monti

Simulations have turned an inevitable fact —using the chosen brand and type of film for an entire roll— into an aesthetic tool allowing the selection of the most appropriate ima...

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