Opinion
Why Shoot Film? It’s about where things break down…
As the title says, for me, it’s about where things break down. The beginnings and endings. The edges. There is always a...
36 keepers: Working towards a perfect roll of film in India
One of the things I tried while in India was to set myself a simple challenge: to shoot a "perfect" roll of 36 exposures.
Global film photography survey: Your help needed
At the end of February, I played a little game on social media in the form of a film photography "Never Have I Ever..." For a fun little thing, the....
The Paradox of cluttered contact sheets
Contact sheets are a fantastic resource for film photographers, and can also be used by digital artists - although applying these ideas to a digital workflow can often distort the result (but I'll come back to this later).
Is black and white photography “real”?
I recently wrote an article about the way I find the film process is an asset to an honest approach to documentary...
Scanning film: The $20K Imacon 949 vs the $740 Epson Perfection V800
Let me be clear this is not a consumer or technical review, really it is just a bit of fun born out...
Natural bedfellows? The symbiotic relationship of Mobile and Film photography
You may have heard: photographic film is a viable business again. Like a river fed by many smaller tributaries, there are a...
My year on film in 115 photos: A 2019 retrospective or, my not-a-365-project
What follows is my 2019 in film photography, a 365 photography project that was absolutely not a 365 project. In this article,...
Embracing winter conditions in my film photography workflow
Winter 2018 was when I really buckled down and took black and white photography seriously, as a response to a few uninspiring...
Where to from here?
We (almost) all put ourselves on display via the many and varied social platforms with our photography, writings, podcasts and whatever else....
A love letter to motion pictures
My grandma would introduce me to her friends as "James the photographer" and I would whisper under my breath "'I'm a filmmaker,...
A Day in the Life: London Street Photography with the Leica M6
This article is part diary, part camera review, part lens review, and part film review, all based around my average day-to-day exploits as a film-based street photographer and photojournalist in London.
Three things Bill Murray can teach you about street photography
A man walks up to a couple at a restaurant, takes one of their french fries right from the table, eats it,...
Essay: What happened to ‘Girl Gaze’?
The concept of a ‘gaze’ is not new to photography. In the 1970’s art critics and theorists like John Berger and Laura...
Some more of my Favourite Film Photographers – by Simon King
Last year I published a short list of analogue photographers who were valuable (at least to me) in some way; ones who...
Film vs digital? It’s a pointless debate: photographing the Northern Lights on both
The debate pitting traditional film vs digital photography and which is superior has been going on over a decade - more than...
Taking a chip off the old creativity block
Writer’s block, creative slow-down, work paralysis – call it what you will but, as people who rely on a steady flow of...
Shooting 100-year-old black and white film: Primor B2 Panchromatisch – by Maxime Evangelista
"Where in god’s name did he find 100-year-old film?", you might be asking yourself. Well I recently went to Budapest, Hungary for...
The Honesty in Film Photography – by Simon King
After some recent discussions with my peers, I've started to feel that "honesty" is an underrated quality in many genres of photography....
Dream camera: My experiences buying a Nikon F6 from Japan Camera Hunter
Everyone has a dream camera. I have...well, a dream team: a set of cameras designed to meet specific needs and moods, from the small to large formats.
