Photography Philosophy Archives

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 ...

21 August, 2025

Beyond Death and Film Photography

By Simon King

I got into film photography at a time in my life when I was not at my best; and one of my reasons for working with film at that time ties into that headspace. I haven’t re...

7 August, 2025

A Broken Nikon F55 – Just shoot me…

By Christopher Deere

…or, How I (kinda) learned to let go (a little, maybe) of my control-freak mentality and surrendered myself to the simple joy of point-and-shoot photography…(For a w...

Argentix on Voigtlander VF 135 – A Very Small Review
My compact rangefinder is a Minolta CLE with a Voigtländer Nokton 1,4/40 mm. I love to hold it in my…
Kary Schumpert on Saying Goodbye To Some Old Cameras
Oh, thanks for the link!!! :) Can't wait!! :)
Sorin. on Voigtlander VF 135 – A Very Small Review
Thanks David. Like you, I am trying hard to dampen down my GAS, but honestly, I do not know if…

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