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2 November, 2025

My (Brief) Life as a Documentary Photographer

By Jeremy Rata

2 November, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, Reflecting on the past, /

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6 December, 2024

Rollei 35T – A compact hiking companion

By Mark Ellerby

I had been desiring a Rollei 35 for a while, after previously owning a B35 which produced some nice pictures for me but had a tendency to chew the film between sprocket holes an...

A black and white photograph of two women in Halloween costumes posing for the camera. First one's wearing a black top hat and face paint depicting scars around her mouth, the other is wearing a Mad Hatter costume of sorts.

5 December, 2024

Mystery Films – Found, Developed and Scanned

By mkukka

While going through my boxes of photography gear I came by not one, but two rolls of undeveloped T-Max 400. I had no idea what those rolls contained, or when they had been shot....

5 December, 2024

A Camera Trio in Rio

By Jeffery Luhn

Rio de Janeiro means ‘River of January’ in Portuguese. This name was chosen by the explorers who first arrived in their tiny wind-blown ships on January 1, 1502. Can you imagine...

4 December, 2024

Hydra on 35mm

By Logan Mortimer

I learned about Hydra during my university years. I was in a ‘Leonard Cohen phase’ and learned that he lived on the Greek island during an early phase of his life. Fast forward ...

4 December, 2024

Fujica 35-SE – A review of an interesting if tatty camera

By Tony Warren

My interest in mid 20th century efforts to automate photography led to the purchase of a Fujica 35-SE. When I bought my first dSLR, a Fuji S2 Pro, Fuji were better known for the...

3 December, 2024

Can You Get Mojo From TLR Cameras?

By Jeffery Luhn

Tony Warren’s recent post entitled, “My TLRs Over the Years”, got me thinking about the who, what, where, and how my experiences with TLR’s made photography so intriguing… and w...

3 December, 2024

New Horizons and Moving Back in Time

By Philip

Having shot purely digital for well over a decade, I find myself more and more drawn to the analog process and aesthetic of the film medium. This hankering for a more organic an...

2 December, 2024

Polaroid Punk – a One Shot Story

By Matthew Bigwood

This picture came about following my admiration of the renowned photojournalist David Burnett, whose career has covered seven decades and included coverage of the Vietnam War an...

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