There’s been a large amount of chatter on some of the analogue photography Facebook groups recently about whether or not it’s cheating to use software to tweak your film photos ...
17 February, 2019
1960s New York. Dad’s slides scanned – by Charles Higham
My mother presented me with a mixed collection of my late father's transparencies on one of my visits. Mostly good family photos as expected, but also photographs of a few place...
12 January, 2019
Film Photography Shows Why Private Property and Capitalist Markets Work Well – By Frank H. Wu
If anyone had doubts about it, the comparison of digital photography and film photography presents a compelling argument for the norms of private property and the capitalist mar...
8 January, 2019
Do We Need to Know What We’re Looking At? – By Frank H. Wu
I recently took two tours that revealed different philosophies about how we look at the world around us. At the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, there are no title cards for t...
It is often said that the best way to improve something, anything that you do creatively is to give yourself a project. A self set goal that focuses your creative energies onto ...
On Thursday last week I spent half the day taking photos of a man who makes and restores violins. It was, to say the least, an enjoyable experience, but it also felt like a time...
2 December, 2018
Are All My Photographs Failures? – By Frank H. Wu
My photos fail to tell a story. I was talking to an NYU professor of photography, among other subjects, who is expert in teaching his students to tell a story. He allows them ei...
22 November, 2018
Sharing my Failures – Lost Frames from Amsterdam – by Simon King
I recently spent some time in Amsterdam, nothing work related just a short escape from the city. I was joined with fellow photographer David Babaian which was great because I ha...
