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3 November, 2021

What do you do with all the photographs you take? Who actually sees them? – By Nik Stanbridge

By Nik Stanbridge

In the olden days, before domestic computers, sharing images shot on neg film was all about physical artefacts. In order to share your work you had to produce something tangible...

29 October, 2021

“Blur is a Part of Life” – A Collaborative Project

By Sroyon

When asked if blur in photographs is undesirable because it obscures what is there, William Klein disagreed: "If you look carefully at life, you see blur. Shake your hand. Blur ...

17 October, 2021

A Cinematic Photographer Discovering New Horizons by – Nicola Armento

By Nicola Armento

I can’t remember how it all started, I never even thought about taking pictures, but then one day, on that plane to New York in 2017, something changed. I was going on a trip w...

13 October, 2021

How Minimal Can You Go? How Minimal Is Too Far? – By Nik Stanbridge

By Nik Stanbridge

How minimalist can you go and still represent a subject when the photograph appears to be almost abstract and of nothing at all? I’ve been photographing the ground beneath our ...

22 September, 2021

The Pipes Man and Me – By Merik

By Merik

You may have noticed a few pieces of fiction appear at strange times of day on 35mmc recently. Quite possibly you wondered what the hell they were. I’d like to talk a little abo...

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...

16 September, 2021

A Tale of Two Compacts – Emotion and Camera Choice – By Octavia Vans

By Octavia Vans

This article originally began its life as separate reviews of two different not-so-compact cameras. However at some point they merged into a comparison, and then evolved, like a...

14 September, 2021

Aperture Zero 10. The Champ

By Merik

As was often the case, the Pipes Man had spent most of the morning smoking and creeping around places he probably shouldn’t be. However, it was rare he would be so well rewarded.

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