Theory & Reflections Archives

26 January, 2022

Building a Darkroom From the Ground Up – By Katie Cooper

By Katie Cooper

Lockdown 2020 was a blessing in (a very big) disguise, as it gave me the opportunity to research, build and begin work on creating a darkroom. My passion for analogue photograp...

24 January, 2022

Latent Postmodernism and The Act of Photography: Deconstructing the Yashica Y35 – By Michael Kaplan

By Michael Kaplan

I have been involved in some aspect of photography for forty-five years. I was 15 when I took my first precarious steps attempting to understand the complex simplicity of a pinh...

21 January, 2022

28mm Point & Shoot Showdown – The plot widens… – By Daniel Rider

By Daniel Rider

After shooting for a while with 50mm and 40mm fixed lens cameras, I stumbled onto a Ricoh SLR and the old guy at the shop offered me a Pentax 28mm lens for cheap to go with the ...

20 January, 2022

A Year in Slide Film Part 2 – Developing – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

Welcome to part two of my exploration of slide film. You can read part one here. I was really pleased with the number of slide enthusiasts who commented and the general consensu...

18 January, 2022

Photographic Nostalgia and the Myth of Soulfulness – By Ailbíona McLochlainn

By Ailbíona McLochlainn

My interest in tableaux photography now spans nearly two decades. And one type of scene I like to enact can perhaps be described as stills from a fictitious 1960s Soviet film se...

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...

7 January, 2022

Is Bulk Loaded Cine Film a Panacea for Rising Film Prices? – By Matt Wright

By Matthew Wright

In November 2021, Kodak announced a film price increase. Some members of the film community lashed out on social media critical of the price increase. Measured thinkers reasoned...

30 December, 2021

Color Photography with the Leica M10 Monochrom – By John Ricard

By John Ricard

I’ve been shooting for decades, but always in color. Converting these images to Black and White has held no interest to me over the years. I actually have a rather illogical lov...

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