Photography Philosophy Archives

25 November, 2025

Do You Remember That Drunk Dance Thirteen Years Ago?

By Eagle Omomuro

I’ve always felt a kind of disgust toward the trend of full automation and burst shooting. I call it spray and pray. The camera sets the exposure, detects a smile, locks on an e...

16 November, 2025

On Prizes and Awards (a Long and Tiring Musing)

By Andrea Monti

Prizes and awards are ubiquitous also in the photography world. There is an award for everything, and I wouldn’t be suprised to discover an award for the best photo award ...

15 October, 2025

Was it to be my last ever click of a shutter?… With a Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7 50mm f2.8 Macro and Rollei Retro 80s.

By Ibraar Hussain

I took these, all from a roll of Rollei Retro 80s developed in Rodinal, back in 2017. It was a time when I was left with just one SLR; a Minolta Maxxum 7 and one lens – a ...

14 October, 2025

Saying Goodbye To Some Old Cameras

By Kary Schumpert

Recently, I dusted my cameras and almost got buried in a camera avalanche as some of the neck straps got tangled on the shelf. In the narrow escape, I noticed that some of the c...

5 October, 2025

Make Sense (or: Meaning is in the Eye of the Beholder)

By Andrea Monti

I am a big fan of Jim Hall. A god of the Jazz Olympus, he was an amazing guitar player and played (i.e. lived) according to a simple but effective maxim: make musical sense. He ...

2 October, 2025

VIDEO: A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions

By Hamish Gill

I have for a while now been meaning to find a way to restart having chats with photographers I have become friends with through the website. I loved making the occasional videos...

14 September, 2025

Human Photography – My Definition and my Work

By Alexandre Kreisman

You might ask is what Human Photography or even what does it mean! It’s both simple and a bit complicated, as things always are with me… Let me take you back a coupl...

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 ...

Stefan Hiermaier on Do You Remember That Drunk Dance Thirteen Years Ago?
Thank you Eagle and David! Both, the original contribution and the follow-on conversation were enlightening and entertaining for me. And,…
Gordon Ownby on 5 Frames of Queen Califa with a Holga
Fred - Thanks for these photos and the background information. I had not previously known of the origin of “California.”…
David Pauley on Do You Remember That Drunk Dance Thirteen Years Ago?
That's incredible -- the merger of voices and styles -- but totally believable. Until very recently I never used AI,…

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