This article is partly a process note and partly a reflection on working with a consumer photobook service. It comes out of a small group project to make books for an in-store d...
11 March, 2026
Why Do (Photo)books Matter
Throughout my professional career, I have written and edited several books. Initially, I was neither involved in nor interested in the manufacturing part of the process. Once th...
7 February, 2026
Preserving your Photographs – My journey through Self-Publishing ‘BLACK and LIGHT’ books
I am a long-time photo enthusiast, and I have amassed a lifetime of 35mm black and white photos. These 250,000 photos are stored on my computer and Cloud services. It recently o...
6 December, 2025
VEIL – a campaign to publish my book
When I started shooting film ten years ago, it wasn’t about returning to the past. It wasn’t nostalgia. It was more of an attempt to approach photography differently — without t...
16 March, 2025
First Men on the Moon: A hand made, hand bound photobook
I’ve created and published quite a few photobooks in the past but I’ve always wanted to make the process easier, cheaper, quicker and much more predictable and repeatable. All t...
10 February, 2024
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
The 35mmc site mostly concerns gear and experiences, and I admit to having collected way too many lenses myself. It would take a heart of stone to spend as much time with camera...
6 February, 2024
Self-Publishing Books of Your Photography for the Skint Neophyte
Many of us in this film-photography hobby want to print books of our work. We share our photographs online, which is great, but there’s just something about people holding...
17 March, 2023
NEWS: A Kickstarter Campaign for The Rocketgirl Chronicles Brings Backyard Space Travel to Print
3…2…1…blast-off! Backyard Space Travel missions, a photography project started by Andrew Rovenko under Covid-19 lockdowns, is now coming to print under the name, The Rocketgirl ...