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14 February, 2023

The Spoiled Negatives from a Spoiled Petri 7s – By Ana Sousa

By Ana Sousa

I started shooting exclusively in analogue approximately 5 years ago. At the beginning it was like entering a carousel full of expectations and experiences. I wanted to learn ev...

12 February, 2023

The Role of Film Photography in an AI World – By Joseph

By josephtwx

The position of film photography has never been stronger. Against the intangibility of our virtual reality, the medium of photography and its process gives viewers the craved ta...

27 January, 2023

A Year of Projects and Community Events (#TwentyTwentyDo) – by Billy Sanford

By Billy Sanford

It was episode 272 of the Sunny 16 podcast entitled “Blue Magic Tree” that kicked off 2022 and on which Graeme Jago proclaimed the year to be “Twenty Twenty Do”. The spirit of t...

10 January, 2023

Gear Theory – Shooting Film in the Rain – By Ted Ayre

By Ted Ayre

I grew up on my neighbours’ farm in the Lake District, England and spent lots of time as a child helping the adults outside with the sheep, lambs and cows in the pouring r...

20 December, 2022

Scan and Destroy – My blasphemous quest to be free of my negatives – By Max Cooper

By Max Cooper

The issue of SHOTS magazine current at the time of this writing contains images central to my thesis: Recovered slides from my grandfather’s collection. On the off-chance...

4 December, 2022

I Couldn’t Photograph a Watch If You Paid Me – By Ailbíona McLochlainn

By Ailbíona McLochlainn

As someone with a fairly modest stockpile of photographic equipment, I often find myself praised for not succumbing to the so-called Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Which is funny. B...

3 December, 2022

My Second First Roll of Film – By Reyazul Haque

By Reyazul Haque

This is how I remember that day: it was a day when the university of my town received the foundation stone for a campus of its own. And in the far west US army occupied the capi...

2 December, 2022

Anecdotes from the Analogue World Ep. 3 – By Nandakumar

By Nandakumar N

The last post you read was probably also the last one that would give you that fuzzy warm feeling. It might have restored your hope in humanity and also made you a bit of an opt...

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