On Thursday last week I spent half the day taking photos of a man who makes and restores violins. It was, to say the least, an enjoyable experience, but it also felt like a time...
2 December, 2018
Are All My Photographs Failures? – By Frank H. Wu
My photos fail to tell a story. I was talking to an NYU professor of photography, among other subjects, who is expert in teaching his students to tell a story. He allows them ei...
22 November, 2018
Sharing my Failures – Lost Frames from Amsterdam – by Simon King
I recently spent some time in Amsterdam, nothing work related just a short escape from the city. I was joined with fellow photographer David Babaian which was great because I ha...
16 November, 2018
A Difference Between Professionals and Amateurs – By Frank H. Wu
I do not aspire to be a professional photographer. I shoot maybe three rolls of film per week and another couple hundred images digitally in that same period, which likely would...
5 November, 2018
How Film Photography Helped Me to Appreciate Colour – by Simon King
When I first started shooting film alongside my digital cameras I wasn't really confident what the results would be - whether they would remain a medium for experimentation or w...
3 November, 2018
Is it Easier or Harder to Take Photos Now? – By Frank H. Wu
I received a compliment about my photos that illustrates how much digital technologies have become the norm. I had emailed a few images to a friend. “Photos you sent are fantast...
2 October, 2018
My Dead Dogs Came Back – By Frank H. Wu
My dead dogs have come back to me thanks to photography. I recently found a roll of film I shot circa 1998 but did not develop. Buster and Ding Ding, two mutts, were the exclusi...
16 September, 2018
Sharpness? A creative goal, but still not a prerequisite for a good photo, or: why I’m enjoying my Makina 67
I recently wrote a post about sharpness being overrated where I ended up alluding to the question (somewhat rhetorically) of why we as photographers obsess to the degree we do o...