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Chandni Chowk Old Delhi

27 December, 2025

A Rainy Night in Chandni Chowk — My Photo of the Year 2025

By Danai

27 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Street & Urban Photography, /

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I found myself in New Delhi, India, for a conference and took the opportunity to explore the local markets for some street photography. This image was taken on my first day in India, and I was definitely not prepared for what I was about to experi...

27 December, 2025

Black Rock Diving Tower – Best Photo of 2025

By Sasha Tsyrlin

27 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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Black Rock Diving Tower is an iconic landmark in Galway, Ireland. It is situated along the picturesque Salthill promenade overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. This location has been photographed a million times but it was very great fun nonetheless to ...

Picture of a heifer wearing a bell and Swiss flags walking down a street as part of a parade.

27 December, 2025

Alpabfahrt – My 2025 Photo of the Year

By Theodore Crispino

27 December, 2025

/ Event Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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In September, my family hopped the ferry from Ireland to France and then drove from Brittany to Switzerland. This was all done to visit friends of ours who live in a small village outside of Lucerne. The husband grew up in the village and he had i...

27 December, 2025

Benson Dry Plate Co. Street Camera – Adventures with Instant Street Photography

By Chad Hill

27 December, 2025

/ afgan box camera, Benson Dry Plate Co., Box Camera, /

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Over the last few years I have been fascinated by the amazing story of Afghan Box Cameras. If you are not familiar with them, Afghan Box Cameras are a category of “instant” camera that was popular in Afghanistan from the 50s until the ...

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Close up of Canon AE-1 35mm camera on desk

19 June, 2024

My First Five Rolls of Film (Ever)

By William Ryan

I didn’t mean to get into shooting film. It was never my plan, never something I set out to do. I certainly had no idea that the format was becoming popular again, or more popul...

Flinders Street Station Melbourne by David Hume

18 June, 2024

Melbourne 1996 – A One Shot Story by David Hume

By David Hume

I came across this photo yesterday while looking for something else. I immediately remembered the circumstances of taking it. In the 1990s I used to exhibit my artworks in Melbo...

18 June, 2024

5 Frames with a Fujifilm GA645

By Eric

I have never gone through film as quickly as I have with the Fujifilm GA645. Ten rolls in the first week of ownership. There are other cameras I profess to really like that have...

17 June, 2024

Pentax 17 Comprehensive Review – The New Half-Frame Point & Shoot

By Hamish Gill

I’ve been writing about film cameras for a long time now, but the release of a new film camera from a major brand like Pentax feels somehow more significant than most, if not al...

Rollei RPX 25 at 100asa in Rodinal 100:1

17 June, 2024

Rollei RPX 25 at 100 ASA stand developed in Rodinal 100:1

By Geoff Chaplin

I decided to expose RPX 25 (two years past its use by date) at 100asa unfiltered. Why? Well (a) I am after all British, and that’s the sort of stupid thing we do sometimes, (b) ...

Adox CHS 100 II

17 June, 2024

Adox CHS 100 II – First Impressions

By Geoff Chaplin

Adox CHS 100 II is an orthopanchromatic film on a PET base. Orthopanchromatic? What is that? In brief, somewhere between ortho and pan, but the long and better explanation is as...

16 June, 2024

London Tube Riders Having the Time of their Lives, or Perhaps Not

By Danilo Leonardi

Visualise entering a space lit by artificial light, where the outlining of day and night blurs, and everything you see is human-made. It is an environment where the architecture...

15 June, 2024

Seeking Stefan – A One Shot Story

By Peter Roberts

According to my friend Stefan I have a doppelgänger. He goes by the name of Robert apparently. Although doppelgänger usually receive a bad press I’ve never really consider...

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Chad Hill on Benson Dry Plate Co. Street Camera – Adventures with Instant Street Photography
A tough way to make a living, indeed! I am obviously nowhere near ready to start working as an instant…
Erik Brammer on Black Rock Diving Tower – Best Photo of 2025
This photograph does tell a story. The young bloke walking towards the promenade. Was he happy with his own diving…
Chad Hill on Benson Dry Plate Co. Street Camera – Adventures with Instant Street Photography
Very cool! I would love to come across people actually shooting these types of cameras. Do you know what they…

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