Category: Featured projects
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Neshama Sheli: Documenting Israel and the Palestinian territories
This is my ever-changing long-term photo essay about Israel and the Palestinian territories. A place so complex and beautiful at the same time. It isn’t always easy or straightforward to put into words but I have done my best to paint
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Buffalo Soldier: Examining the history and lives of black American soldiers
Over the past two years, I’ve been pouring everything I had emotionally, physically, and financially into a staged photography series I call “Buffalo Soldier”. My project is…
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Social Music: Covering the Los Angeles jazz and hip-hop scene
Jazz has a special place in my heart. It’s a musical language that somehow, I can understand by simply feeing my mind and letting the music run through my soul.
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Beyond the Visual: an interactive photo booth experience
Beyond the Visual is an interactive photo booth experience: a combination of visual arts piece, immersive theater, and educational program. We are transforming an…
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One year of Analogue Wonderland: a retrospective
It’s been over a year since Analogue Wonderland first opened its (virtual) doors and started selling a wide variety of films to analogue photographers around the world.
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Saxonvale: two years documenting a brownfield industrial site
This is the story of a photo project which started on a whim and grew into something far bigger than I’d imagined. Fingers crossed it’s not finished yet, but more on that later.
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A new multi-format camera is born: meet the CAMERADACTYL HOMONCULUS 69
There’s a new camera on the block and it just so happens to be the latest addition to the CAMERADACTYL family. I call it the HOMONCULUS 69 – because it can take photographs up to 6×9 in size.
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Amazing canned food pinhole selfies (featured project and how to)
It all started with some idle musings between a few photographers. Some were expressing a bit of disdain for the “selfie generation”, which triggered a chain of thought that lead me to a fusion of pop-art and selfies.
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Film photography in album cover design
I discovered my love of film photography by accident. Being a collector, I have always frequented thrift stores for anything I could find of interest.
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The CFPG travelling camera project
On the 15th of July 2016, a group of fifteen people from Europe and the United Kingdom, started a joint project on Facebook’s Colour Film Photography Group, the idea was that we would send one camera to all the
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The Frugal Film Project: the not-a-project film photography project
“Do a project, it will be fun!” they say… whoever they are.
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How-to: become an excellent photographer
My name is Ethan, I am the stable genius behind Cameradactyl. I recently published a video with some simple tips and tricks, and a few products guaranteed to take your photography to the next level.
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An update on the SP-8×10+ film development system
Testing is going well. Everyone who has tried the SP-8×10+ loves it. The biggest technical challenge: we’re still optimizing the hold-down tabs.
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Creating the Stearman Press SP-8×10+ film development system
It has taken several years and a lot of experimentation, (not to mention a lot of wasted film), but we finally have the answer for processing large, large format without a darkroom.
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Introducing MAYA: the incredible modern digital darkroom timer
MAYA is a brand new, modular, from scratch digital darkroom timer that can be used (right now) for both making prints and timing film/paper development.
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New film: announcing medium format Kosmo Foto Mono 100 120 format film
In November 2017, the first batch of 35mm Kosmo Foto Mono 100 made its way from the Czech Republic to Kosmo Foto HQ in south east London. It was the culmination of nearly 18 months of planning;
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Shooting an album cover on film – Eyedress’ Sensitive G
I had previously worked with Eyedress in Tokyo at Big Love Records. He’s a Philipines based artist who is currently on Lex Records based out of England.
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New for 2019: the CAMERADACTYL OG 4×5 hand camera – lightweight large format photography for all
For the last few months, I have been working tirelessly at destroying my anonymity for the purpose of selling cameras.
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Creating the GX-Pan: a wide format cinematic Hasselblad
I’ve always been fascinated by the cinematic look of movies.
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Making ONDU pinhole cameras: the story of “over there”
A little while ago, I got speaking to Elvis Halilović, one half of the brains behind ONDU.