“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 […]

Author Archives: Pixels and Grain Collective
The Pixels and Grain Collective. Photography fun in every format.
Website: https://pixelsandgrain.photo.blog
C-Scapes Zine: https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1916656
Adam Tuck: @heythisisadam
Adrian Cheung: @the.cheungster
Alan Ma: @thefilmsweats
Bill Thoo: @bill.thoo
Chang Liu: @changcoryliu
Christopher James: @filmplusdigital
Vincent Chou: @_vincentchou
Will Woon: @willsydney
Mathew Joseph @fotodudenz
Matt Jones @mjones41
Theo Panagopoulos @theo_panagopoulos and www.photothinking.com
Film makes me lazy. And smart. And harder working.
Why do we photograph with film? On the one level, it is a silly question. Why do some people like cookies and cream, and others like choc fudge? Because it exists, it is an option, and we just do. For those of us where film photography is an equal option to digital photography, there is no need to necessarily […]
Purple nights on Lomochrome Purple with the Pixels and Grain Collective
Lomochrome Purple XR 100-400 is an interesting film, with unclear origins, that shifts colours towards the purple spectrum, like a fantasy/dream. Greens become purple, blues aqua/green, and skin tones orangey, in a psychedelic way. Iso 100? 200? 400? Take your pick! While there are many articles out there about the colour shifting properties of this film, […]