Street & Urban Photography Archives

15 April, 2018

Beers & Cameras Birmingham – 24/03/18 – and, how we didn’t let the racists ruin our day…

By Hamish Gill

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

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

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

By C. 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

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

By C. 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.

8 July, 2017

Leica M6 Street Photography – Tokyo Files – by Mark Forbes

By Mark Forbes

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...

4 June, 2017

35mm & (very) Large Format in Detroit – by Erik Henderson

By Erik Henderson

Most of my work is social documentary work, usually dealing with the urban landscape and the environment. One of my projects is centred around the Detroit neighbourhood of Delra...

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