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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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21 August, 2025

5 frames from my first roll of Kentmere 200

By Roger

On the basis that with a new film it’s useful to see as many examples as possible, here are 5 frames from my first (half) roll of Kentmere 200. I put a roll in my Olympus ...

21 August, 2025

Beyond Death and Film Photography

By Simon King

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...

Minox 35GT

20 August, 2025

5 frames with my Minox 35GT

By Daimon Tilley

I first got interested in photography in around 1982, at the tender age of 15, saving my pocket money to buy a Zenit EM, and three years later, having started work, a Minolta X3...

Earth Air Fire Water Spirits

20 August, 2025

Earth, Air, Fire and Water – in Sapporo

By Geoff Chaplin

A two-day relaxing trip to Sapporo, Japan – at least as relaxing as 70,000 steps of photo-walks can be in 31°C. The title emerged from the images I happened to take rather than ...

19 August, 2025

Fujifilm Velvia 50 and an Aesthetic of Necessity

By David Hume

I’ve recently been digging through folders and shoeboxes, looking for photos I shot in Venice in January 1995. That was a painting trip, but of course I took some cameras with m...

19 August, 2025

5 frames with a Panasonic GX9 and Olympus 135mm manual lens – Compact gig cam

By Charles Higham

I haven’t taken a camera with me to a concert before but as I was lucky enough to have a front row seat to see Natalie Umbruglia and The Corrs I thought this was a good opportun...

18 August, 2025

Robert Frank’s View in Butte, Montana – One Shot Story

By John Bennett

When my wife, Darby, and I mapped out our recent road trip through the American West, it was not our intention to follow the same route that Robert Frank took in the mid-1950s w...

Photo of a Voigtländer Bessa 46 camera

18 August, 2025

Voigtländer Bessa 46 – It’s Quite Good Actually.

By Richard Becker

I bought this Voigtländer Bessa 46 in a job lot of 4 cameras, it wasn’t the one I bought the lot for and to be honest it looked the least promising of them all and I had taken n...

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Paul Quellin on 5 Frames, some with the Bridge Turned into Shadow and Shape.
Very pleasing and evocative photographs to look at Danilo. I wondered if they might be very much of the place…
Michael Jardine on Printing Live: What I Learned from Sharing the Darkroom in Real Time
This is all wonderful. I persuaded myself to revive my darkroom practice during Covid lockdown days when I was indoors…
Michael Jardine on Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)
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