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26 August, 2019

Video: Chatting to Ashley Carr in a Carpark in Stourport

By Hamish Gill

A little while back I decided I fancied making a few (hopefully) more interesting videos for my YouTube channel. I’ve tried the odd bit of “vlogging”, some of it seems to go dow...

12 August, 2019

Kodak Ektachrome E100 – Forgetting my Expectations & Embracing a bit of Failure

By Hamish Gill

A little while ago now I shot a roll of Ektachrome E100 in a camera that turned out to be broken. The camera itself feels pretty irrelevant to this story, other than the fact th...

8 August, 2019

My “Reason for Visit,” stage 3B cancer – By Nicolás Hagen

By nicolas.himself

Hello, I’m Nicolás Hagen. I'm 22, an artist, photographer, and cancer survivor. Soon, I’ll be officially releasing my fully Polaroid photography book, Reason for Visit. I was di...

17 July, 2019

Finding a style not a camera – By Taylor Ervin

By tervin1121

Of course we are all here because we love cameras. But after over a year and a half of shooting film seriously, I’ve come to the conclusion that the camera doesn’t matter. Ok it...

15 July, 2019

No, your Pentax Spotmatic F is not better than my Leica M6! / Don’t be like Frank

By Hamish Gill

I often get accused of writing click bait titles. I’m really not sure what people think the purpose of an article title is if it’s not designed to get people to read it, but non...

3 June, 2019

Kodak Portra 800 Review – and some Thoughts on Shooting it Within my Workflow

By Hamish Gill

Kodak Portra 800 is quite possibly my favourite colour negative film. I say that as someone who’s just committed to shooting only P3200 and Ektachrome E100 for at least 6 months...

31 May, 2019

Minolta Hi-Matic 7 Review – One Year Shooting Film – By Seb Copley

By sebcopley

Sometime last winter I started reading and taking an interest in online articles about a resurgence of analogue photography. I have long had an interest in photography which I a...

24 May, 2019

Compact Magic: Turning into a Point-and-Shooter – By Christian Schroeder

By Christian Schroeder

My name is Christian Schroeder and I live in Hannover, Germany. I can divide my photography into two modi operandi. On the one hand, I like a slow and thoughtful approach. That ...

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