23 November, 2021
Ten Years Gone: The Ricoh GXR
I have always been a film photographer: I grew up when there was only film and realised, pretty early in the digital age, that the tens of thousands of hours I had already spent...
5 November, 2021
Photographer or Photographic Artist? – by Billy Sanford
This article began as a post in the Photography Books and Theory group on Facebook. It is a friendly and informative group and as the name implies, it is a place to discuss book...
3 November, 2021
What do you do with all the photographs you take? Who actually sees them? – By Nik Stanbridge
In the olden days, before domestic computers, sharing images shot on neg film was all about physical artefacts. In order to share your work you had to produce something tangible...
29 October, 2021
“Blur is a Part of Life” – A Collaborative Project
When asked if blur in photographs is undesirable because it obscures what is there, William Klein disagreed: "If you look carefully at life, you see blur. Shake your hand. Blur ...
13 October, 2021
How Minimal Can You Go? How Minimal Is Too Far? – By Nik Stanbridge
How minimalist can you go and still represent a subject when the photograph appears to be almost abstract and of nothing at all?
I’ve been photographing the ground beneath our ...
21 June, 2021
A Film Photography Fail with a Digital Fix
So far this year, I have had significantly more film photography related fails than I have had good experiences. I've had overlapping exposures and at least a few issues with po...
A photo must ENGAGE THE VIEWER. This is one of my core beliefs about photography. A photo might have profound meaning or it might be throwing light on injustice or espousing som...
27 May, 2021
Spooky Action at a Distance – By Gerard Exupery
Let me ask you a question. What is the hungriest you’ve ever been? I’m not talking about being hangry. I mean, have you ever been so hungry that perhaps you thought of selling y...