Disassembling the only 35mm film holder made for Graflex Cameras isn’t something you get to do every day. Some sixty years ago, a photographer had …
Read moreDisassembling the only 35mm Graflex Film Holder Ever Made
On an early grey wet and gloomy Friday morning I walk through Cape Town’s Thibault Square in search of Riviera Salon. With the weather hanging …
Read moreAfter 56 years: The last days of Riviera Salon on Kodak Portra 400
In the Summer of 2021 something special is coming to the Scottish Highlands (and hopefully elsewhere), courtesy of Simon Riddell, a van, a large camera, …
Read moreIntroducing MentalCollodion: Shining light on mental health struggles by Simon Riddell
You know it’s been an unusual year when you plan a guest article in May and start to write it in November! Either that or …
Expressions of civil unrest have provided many opportunities for photographers to capture the energetic, emotional scenes which are the byproduct of demonstrations, protests, riots, and …
A few months ago I was catching up with CAMERADACTYL’s Ethan Moses when we got to talking about projects that would have the most impact …
Read moreThe CAMERADACTYL Mongoose: A modern full-roll 35mm film scanner
What’s it like shooting a roll of film every single day for thirty days? Probably not as hard as filming it simultaneously. I’m gearing up …
Read moreHow to shoot a film shooting marathon: A FortKnight of Film
Vertex: Latin word from which our English word “vertical” stems from. I have never really been a fan of the vertical format when it came …
Like anything in life, it’s important to choose the right tool for the job. When it comes to shooting portraits you can choose strobes or …
Read moreHow-to: Light portraits on film using LEDs + ideas for all budgets
There have been few opportunities for me to take the Instax Wide format MiNT Camera Instantkon RF70 on a night shoot, a favourite activity of …
Read moreNight photography with the MiNT Camera Instantkon RF70 and Fujifilm Instax Wide film
I have been stuck inside my house for about 5 months now. Quarantine for me, more or less is like the rest of my life. …
Read moreThe Homemade Camera Podcast’s “Unconventional Camera Convention” is now on YouTube
NASA’s photographic documentation of their 20th century race to the Moon forms part of one of the most significant historical records of our time. The …
Read moreOne Giant Leap… Remastering high-resolution images of NASA’s race to the Moon
It’s no secret that for many film photographers, taking photos of their cameras is as enjoyable as making photographs with them. Don’t take my word …
Read moreThe evolution of the camera as seen through X-ray imaging
This is the story of how I came to own a custom-built 35mm slit-scan photography camera and how I set about using it to capture …
Read moreAs a roll of film moves across the film plane: making a slit-scan camera
Hitchcock’s California is a photographic tribute to Alfred Hitchcock by Aimee Sinclair and myself, along with an essay by Hitchcock film historian Dan Auiler. The …
Exploring how one film photographer created an art gallery in Minecraft for a unique photographic exhibition.
June. Rain. July. Rain. August… Rain again. The days were all the same. What to do in Paris during a summer as rotten as that …
I’ve been trying to keep my local film photography community here in the Philippines creatively engaged as we’re 3 ½ weeks into…
I was 2,500 miles away from home when COVID-19 started to unravel the fabric of our daily routines. On the road for work at a…
In 1993 I had a book published of photographs that had been taken over the previous few years. I was running an art gallery with …
Read moreStuck at home? The “Stuck At Home Photography” blog has you and your creativity covered
