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30 October, 2025

Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)

By John Bennett

30 October, 2025

/ Camera History, Leica III, Nikkor-s 5cm 1.4, /

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After our recent road trip, which included a night at the Hotel Finlen in Butte, Montana, and a chance to photograph the window where Robert Frank made one of the 83 images included in his landmark book, The Americans, I became mildly obsessed wit...

30 October, 2025

Printing Live: What I Learned from Sharing the Darkroom in Real Time

By Tom Warland

30 October, 2025

/ Darkroom Printing, /

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Ever since I first started photography, I’ve loved the darkroom. There have been times when I’ve drifted away from it – drawn in by the convenience of digital editing, whether from negatives or digital files – but I always find myself ...

30 October, 2025

5 Frames, some with the Bridge Turned into Shadow and Shape.

By Danilo Leonardi

30 October, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, Street & Urban Photography, /

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It sometimes seems as though every sunset has already been photographed. Most often, the image is of a landscape in the “golden hour,” a favourite of postcard pictures. Epic skies are often part of the same cliché, reflecting a very conventional “...

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2 September, 2025

Me and a Fish (Circa 1960) – A One Shot Story

By Curtis Heikkinen

One of my most vivid memories of growing up on Twenty Mile Stream Road in Proctorsville, Vermont, is of pulling that brook trout out of the small brook that flowed in back of ou...

Featured image for the article "5 frames in Switzerland with a Minox 35 GT and Silbersalz 500T film"

2 September, 2025

5 frames in Switzerland with a MINOX 35 GT and Silbersalz 35 500T

By PASCAL

I am a French electronics engineer, having spent most of my career in information systems. Now retired, I have more time to devote to photographic hobbies. I started photography...

1 September, 2025

Portraits of Sabrina – An Exercise in Photographic Therapy

By Derek Hope

It’s 1125BC; King Locrinus is King of the Britons. His wife, Gwendolen had learned her husband’s infidelity, of the illegitimate daughter born of Germanic Princess Estrild...

1 September, 2025

Fuji STX-2 and the X-mount bayonet cul-de-sac

By Bob Janes

Fuji Photo Film started up in the 1930s producing film and photographic material. They grew to be Japan’s largest film producer. Along the way, they made a series of cameras, ai...

31 August, 2025

IPA 2025 International Photographer Of the Year Yehor Lemzyakoff on Misplaced Childhood and his Photography

By Ibraar Hussain

“You know, I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. Oh, most everybody else didn’t realize we lived in that web of magic, ...

31 August, 2025

Analogue (and analogue inspired) Newsletter September 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

Welcome to the September Analogue (and analogue inspired) News and Tittle-Tattle. As I write this the Summer is just about over, thankfully it still lingers on and I’m hop...

A colour triptych image, three portrait photos of a mural on the side of a building. The mural is abstract with big sweeping waves of rainbow ribbons in a pastel colour.

30 August, 2025

Worldwide Half-Frame Photography Day 6th September 2025!

By Yant Martin-Keyte

Inspired by Holga week and worldwide pinhole day I’d like to share half-frame day with you. It’s all about having fun celebrating this great analogue format! There will be a pho...

30 August, 2025

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – Part 2 – Embracing Colours

By Martin H

This is the second part of my article, Analogue Photography – A Personal Journey. If you haven’t read the first part yet, I recommend doing so — it provides useful background, h...

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