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26 December, 2025

Westminster Bridge Matam – My Most Divisive Photograph of 2025

By Simon King

26 December, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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There’s starting the year strong, and there’s whatever I managed to do this year, in making a photograph I was incredibly pleased with, while also incurring a consequence I can’t seem to escape from in some of my projects. Januar...

Naxos Island Kastraki Beach

26 December, 2025

5 Frames from Naxos Island

By Andrea Darra

26 December, 2025

/ Rolleiflex 3.5, travel photography, /

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I haven’t been back to Greece for a long time. I don’t know why I love the islands of the Cyclades archipelago so much, but every time I visit, my days are certainly dedicated to photography. I even believe my first photos – diff...

26 December, 2025

Abstract Graffiti – My Photograph of the Year 2025

By Ed

26 December, 2025

/ Pentax Auto 110, photo of the year 2025, /

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This photo was taken as part of a Sunday afternoon walk to town. I was testing a newly acquired Pentax Auto 110 and the image was taken with the tiny 18mm wide angle lens. This is a photo of nothing in particular but each time I look at it I am dr...

26 December, 2025

5 Frames featuring L.A.’s Skateboard Culture

By Gordon Ownby

26 December, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, Street & Urban Photography, /

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In more than 20 years photographing on the streets of Los Angeles, I’ve never once set out to take photos of skateboarders. And yet, I have more photographs of skateboarders in my street portfolio than of any other single subject. Now both a modes...

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14 August, 2024

5 Frames in Old San Juan On a Mamiya 6 with Fujichrome

By Tyler Montgomery

Since getting back into film, photography has become a focal point of my travels, even when it’s simply to document the mundane. Unlike the bottomless nature of digital photogra...

13 August, 2024

Father, Son and a Texas Star – A One Shot Story

By Cameron Kilpatrick

After moving to Austin Texas in 2018 from Toronto Canada, I was eager to get out and shoot some film. I had come back to shooting film again from a decade or so of pray and spra...

13 August, 2024

Shooting Sheet film in a Polaroid Pack Camera

By Jim Skelton

My stash of Polaroid pack film was running low when I realized that all of my Polaroid pack cameras would be film orphans soon unless someone started producing pack film again. ...

12 August, 2024

The Camera that Launched my Career… and Nearly Devastated me.

By Jeffery Luhn

I’m talking about the EXA 1-A, my first ‘grown-up’ camera. Don’t confuse this model with classic Exacta cameras with leaf or focal plane shutters. The Exa has no real shutter. T...

Minolta X-700 camera with a box of Harman Phoenix

11 August, 2024

5 Frames with a Minolta X-700 and Harman Phoenix in Krakow, Poland

By James Billings

I’d wanted to try Harman Phoenix for a while. When it was released in late 2023, there was a lot of excitement for a new colour film – not a repackaged Kodak cine-fi...

10 August, 2024

5 Frames Going Square with 35mm Film in a Minolta 24 Rapid

By Marco Andrés

So you like square format but you don’t want to pay the price for medium format or bear the weight and prefer the convenience of 135. And if you can barely get through 36 frames...

9 August, 2024

An Accidental Living-Room – A One Shot Story

By Danilo Leonardi

The photograph illustrating this post was taken nine summers ago, on a Sunday, while I was walking along the Thames Path in East London, not far from the Canada Water DLR Statio...

9 August, 2024

Retina IIc and the Kodak Retina system

By Tony Warren

A few years ago my cousin passed her father’s Retina IIc on to me including a lens hood, a couple of filters and a 1958 copy of The Retina Way by O. R. Croy. This informative bo...

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