21 August, 2025
Beyond Death and Film Photography
I got into film photography at a time in my life when I was not at my best; and one of my reasons for working with film at that time ties into that headspace. I haven’t re...
19 July, 2025
Meeting Jamel Shabazz – in which a chance encounter turns into a Master Class in street portraiture
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...
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...
18 July, 2025
Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time
With the growing interest in analogue photography, as Bastian so inspiringly explores in his Analogue Adventures, I too have decided to create a series of film-related articles....
14 July, 2025
Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax
(Title Photo – only one of two photos of the G2 unfortunately with me in it! Yuk! 2009) This will be my last post on a Contax G2 I used to have (last but one), and which I...
I was curious to see how an AI would handle a bad photo, so I uploaded this black-and-white shot taken in the area around Kyoto Station with my Nikon 35TI. The photo itself —the...
To begin with what may seem like a cliché: in today’s world, avoiding screens has become nearly impossible. Sitting in front of a laptop monitor, sketching on a tablet, with a p...
9 June, 2025
A Year in Pictures – 12 Frames in 12 Months
It’s been one year since I unexpectedly came into custody of a Hasselblad 500CM and a Leica M2. This opened up a whole new creative outlet for me and has become a very ab...
