The 24 Hour Project is a humanitarian initiative which connects photographers in cities all around the world, inviting them to join together for 24 hours straight to photograph ...
15 April, 2018
Beers & Cameras Birmingham – 24/03/18 – and, how we didn’t let the racists ruin our day…
A couple of weeks ago I met up with around 20 other photographers in the centre of Birmingham for a bit of a Beers & Cameras photowalk. We met some angry football fans, angry an...
2 April, 2018
Photographing Punks on Polaroid – by Simon King
I've always thought of myself as an outsider - I think a lot of photographers do. It makes it easier for us to introspect; to look at the world from a perspective a little more ...
12 March, 2018
A Few Frames More, with the Hasselblad XPan – by Simon King
The XPan is everything I have ever needed from a film camera. It serves the purpose to me of being fundamentally different from the regular frame shape which most film, digital ...
27 October, 2017
Finding details in the city: part 2 – Georgetown – by Carlos Argott
In the same way that in my previous photo essay I focused on small details that I would’ve normally ignored. For this second part I decided to also go to a neighbourhood that I ...
21 October, 2017
Second City – Making My First Zine – by Richard PJ Lambert
I’m a very unprofessional, self-taught film photographer from Birmingham. There is always a camera in my pocket and I like to experiment with different techniques to capture the...
5 August, 2017
Finding details in the city: part 1 – International District – Guest post by Carlos Argott
It’s very easy to be excited about all the new photographic opportunities when one is traveling, but sometimes it becomes much harder to feel inspired in the city where you live.
After shooting the Leica M6 for just over a year, including a decent period with it as my only film camera, I thought it was time to put pen to paper; or fingers to keys, as the...