“Beacons Through Time” explores the themes of patience, constancy, and rhythm by capturing US East Coast lighthouses using extreme long exposure solargraphs. Between 2022 and 2023, I visited roughly 25 lighthouses along the coast and rivers, spanning Midcoast Maine to northern Georgia, to place and retrieve nearly 200 cameras. In this article, I outline the […]
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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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My RA-4 reversal journey: Shooting and processing colour paper negatives
I got bit by the RA-4 reversal bug a few weeks back, diving deep into chemistry, filtration, processing, and rinsing (more on the rinsing a bit later). The RA-4 development process is used to produce a color print on (you guessed it) color paper in the darkroom. In this article, I cover my RA-4 reversal […]
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Making trichromes with Solarfast dye: A cheap and fast alternative to gum bichromate printing??
Last year, while browsing in my excellent local art supply store, I noticed the rack of Solarfast dyes from Jacquard. It was there with their cyanotype supplies and I was fascinated to learn that it is a photosensitive dye that acts like cyanotype sensitizer but is available in a wide variety of colors. Above: My […]
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New film cameras from PENTAX / Ricoh Imaging? “Film Project Start”
Some great news to help round out the year! Pentax (now a division of Ricoh Imaging) is starting the development of new film cameras. Announced through a collection of videos, a mini-site and a press release today, the company states the project involves the “research and development of new PENTAX-brand film camera products” and is […]
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Documenting Sport Is Your Gang (SIYG) and social outreach in Colombia
I have been documenting sports, specifically Muaythai, for over a decade. During this time, I have earned wonderful opportunities to document some of the best athletes from around the world, and watch high-level contests in the history of the sport. I have also had the privilege to witness this small sport expand globally to Europe, […]
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Featured Project: Ballet on film, Honolulu Classical Ballet through the pandemic
“Ballet on Film” is an intimate story of how Honolulu Classical Ballet evolved to keep art and its artists relevant during the pandemic. It was a collaboration with Honolulu Classical Ballet and artistic director Romi Beppu into the rich hues, spirited movements, and magical artistry that is ballet in Hawaii. Instead of focusing on the […]
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Featured Project: Enter the Forest by Alexandre Miguel Maia
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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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 […]
