Hi I’m Alex, and I’m currently finishing up a book about the forests I photographed for six years between 2014 and 2020. I hope that I can give you some insight into how I approached it and that I might be able to motivate and inspire you as well to create your own project in […]
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Looking for inspiration from the community? Check out these amazing projects created by film photographers just like you.
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Build log: Take one Polaroid Model 455 and one Instax 100 camera and what do you get? A serious hack job
After Fujifilm’s FP instant pack film was discontinued back in 2016, the remaining larger-format instant film choices were few: Impossible Project integral film, which took 30 minutes to develop with unpredictable results, or Fuji Instax wide film. Sure, you can still buy expired pack film, or spring for One Instant, but at over $20/photo, it […]
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A Year in Plastic: One film, one camera, one week, one picture, one year (Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2009)
This project presented images of the world around me as and when I found them, all captured through the lens of a plastic toy camera. Completed in 2009, the project involved taking one picture at a time, once a week, on one camera, for one year. Every week’s picture stands alone, as it was found, […]
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Hidden in Plain Sight: A 36-Day Quest to Discover the Daily Miracle of Nature’s Quiet Moments – by Dan Kehlenbach
The concept seemed simple — pick a specific place and explore it every day for thirty-six days, use only one camera and one lens, and take one photograph each day. One click of the shutter. With film. No second chances, no do-overs. I’ve been fascinated by this notion ever since watching Jim Brandenburg’s Chased by […]
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A look back at my personal One-Shot-Per-Week challenge of 2021 – by Tim Soderstrom
…or, forcing myself to take photos on large format film during a pandemic for an entire year. In 2021, I decided to give myself a photo challenge – to take one shot per week, on large format (4×5), for an entire year using. Though at times it certainly was a struggle, I’m happy to say […]
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Unidentified Black Male, or 8 out of 10 frames: Creating a small body of personal portraiture on Fuji FP-100c instant film with a Graflex Crown Graphic
In my second year of participating in the EMULSIVE Secret Santa, I was fortunate enough to be gifted a box of discontinued Fuji FP-100c colour peel-apart instant film. For some of you, the mere mention of FP-100c might inspire heart palpitations, be it for the rare and somewhat elusive nature of this beloved, now-discontinued film […]
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Repurposing orphaned instant cameras: Creating the Polaroid “SX-450”
2016 hit me hard. 100-Series pack film for Polaroid cameras would no longer be produced and it was only a matter of time before all of my packfilm cameras would become orphans. By 2019, my film stash was running low and I was toying with the idea of making these cameras work with other film […]
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Featured project: Memories of a man once there… The project that made me reinvent myself as an artist and a photographer
It was early in 2020, and like many of us, I felt lost… We all have endured every little aspect of the pandemic and it had an impact on all of us… And so it had on me. To be honest, it was the best thing that happened to me and my photographic dream. It […]
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Polarity, A Lockdown Project
“Polarity” is a current project of the Pixels and Grain Collective. Very simply, these are portraits of power and telecommunications poles in our local neighbourhoods, made by members of the collective in Sydney and Thailand during the 2021 coronavirus lockdowns. 2021 was optimistic in Sydney. We had more or less crushed the coronavirus numbers […]
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Bringing back instant 20×24″ photography in an age after the 20×24 Polaroid with CAMERADACTYL
During the long pandemic quarantine, I bought a laser cutter the size of a small Volkswagen to cut ventilator prototype parts, Brooklyn Film Camera Polaroid scan trays, and a number of other photographic equipment parts. I bought the largest cutter that I could fit in my shop, because I had been dreaming of the 20×24 […]
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Say hello to the NoColorStudio initiative and their unique film stocks
Greetings! I am Arnas Špaka, founder of the NoColorStudio initiative. Word is slowly getting around about the new film stock that NoColorStudio produces, but as we’re not that well known yet, I am here to talk a little more about it.
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The wild bear in my neighborhood: Documenting Halloween 2021’s Bangkok lèse-majesté protests on 35mm film
Let’s say there’s this wild bear in your neighborhood. He terrorizes the children and snaps his teeth at the elderly. He breaks into people’s homes, stomps on their plants, destroys their lawn furniture, and eats their food. Although the bear is being his bear-self, people are frustrated and they have concerns. The wild bear in […]
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47 Nearby Gasoline Stations on Kodak Tri-X 400
Climate change will force humans to cut their dependency on fossil fuels or the consequences will be catastrophic. But how can we really grasp and put our consumption of oil into a relatable context? Numbers as such millions of oil barrels produced per year don’t seem to make sense to anyone outside of the oil […]
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Photography Through The Pandemic
Photography Through The Pandemic features the photography and words of 49 photographers from across the world who were inspired — all in very different ways — by the Covid-19 pandemic. It is a look at the myriad ways that the Pandemic has affected photographers from all around the world and from all different backgrounds. The […]
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A new brand and very limited edition 26mm Leica M-mount snapshot lens from 35mmc and Skyllaney Optomechanics
Say hello to the Omnar CN26-6, a brand new 26mm f/6, fixed aperture, rangefinder coupled, wide-angle, snapshot lens for Leica M-mount cameras from Hamish Gill at 35mmc and Chris from Skyllaney Optomechanics, with a little help from CameraKote. Omnar CN26-6 on a Leica M-10POmnar CN26-6 on a Leica M4-POmnar CN26-6 on a Leica M4-POmnar CN26-6 on a Leica M-10P It has a […]
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Announcing Let’s Explore Magazine issue 03: Empowerment
When embarking on the journey of creating this passion project as a personal creative outlet in 2015, I had certain ideas about how things could evolve over time. I saw potential in the idea of a collaborative, quality-first, and when-ready publication. I still do, obviously. At some point I caught myself daydreaming about publishing this […]
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How I transformed cyanotype prints into a video for Vivienne Westwood
Cyanotype — also known as the “blueprint” or “sunprint” process, among other names — is a photographic process that has been practiced by photographers for ~180 years. Through the magic of combining two chemicals — ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide — you can produce a striking blue image in a matter of moments. Coated […]
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5119 Cameras’ large format pinhole cameras now on Kickstarter + creator Q&A with David Hancock
I recently had the opportunity to talk with David Hancock about his recently launched Kickstarter campaign: large format pinhole cameras from 5119 Cameras. You may know David from his eponymous YouTube channel and articles here on EMULSIVE. Ninth-generation Iterations. The final cameras have improved, aluminum shutters and shock-cord-retained film holder backs for improved usability. David […]
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Going underground: Documenting the history, legacy, and radioactivity of uranium mining with autoradiograms
My Geiger counter crackled and I read the dial: one thousand counts per minute, roughly twenty-seven times normal background radiation….
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Analogue Wonderland: 3 Year Retrospective
Editor’s note: In early 2018 I invited Paul McKay to tell the story of how he created Analogue Wonderland. At the time, it was a new online store based in the UK selling everything from photographic film stocks to developing chemistry and film photography accessories. Each year since then, I’ve invited Paul back to give […]
