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17 September, 2025

A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power

By Andrea Monti

17 September, 2025

/ Architectural Photography, /

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A fast-foot restaurant under the JR Yamanote line tracks in Tokyo, Japan.

9 September, 2025

Tokyo At Night – A One-Shot Story

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

The goal of every travel photographer is to capture the essence of a place or a people in a single image. The challenge – beyond the obvious technical issues related to hauling ...

9 September, 2025

My Own Winterreise (Winter Journey)

By Curtis Heikkinen

Some of you interested in classical music might be familiar with the composer Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” for voice and piano depicting a man’s journey through a h...

8 September, 2025

From Analog Photography to Digital and Back – A Journey to Find Meaning in Non-Professional Photography

By Giacomo Cecot

In 2005, I picked up my first real camera: a Ricoh 500G. It had been lying around the house for years—it was the same camera my mother had used to take all the photos we have, o...

8 September, 2025

Contax 167MT – an outstanding, but overlooked tool

By Peter Schu

The design of the Contax 167MT is different from any other analog camera, other Contax cameras included. I purchased my Contax 167MT in 1992 and I have been using it since then....

7 September, 2025

A Question of a Question of Colour

By Derek Hope

While soaking up the streets of Montreal, I had been very excited to visit the Leica Boutique. I was eager to browse their collection and chew the fat about cameras with exotic ...

7 September, 2025

Camera scanning color negatives – some nerding and search for beauty

By Alexander Seidler

There is something fascinating and also strangely intangible to color negatives. I have been home developing C41 for 10 years and I tried lots of scanners, software and workflow...

6 September, 2025

Voigtlander Vito BL repair fail and GAS-fired workaround

By Simon Foale

Lee Miller could completely strip down her Rolleiflex ‘to the last nut and bolt’ and reassemble it in the dark ‘in some crummy billet’, according to her son, Antony Penrose. Thi...

6 September, 2025

Photographing a Mexican Cartel with a Fuji Instax Mini 12

By Henry Craver

Some background: I’m a photojournalist and a YouTuber. I covered migration and conflict for nearly six years across the Americas and Europe before starting the channel ‘Through ...

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