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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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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EMULSIVE’S most popular articles of 2020
And here it is, the final listicle of 2020. The most popular articles of the year as decided by you for the year we all want to forget. I don’t really have anything more to add other than to wish you all well as you see in the new year and to thank you for […]
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2.5 years of Analogue Wonderland
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 I’m just terrible with deadlines… My name’s Paul McKay and I’m one of the founders and co-owners of Analogue Wonderland. Today I will be taking you through the past 18 […]
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The CAMERADACTYL Mongoose: A modern full-roll 35mm film scanner
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 on the film photography community. I happened to mention my pet peeve: the lack of a modern equivalent to the Kodak Pakon, an automated full-roll film scanner. Fast forward to […]
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How to shoot a film shooting marathon: A FortKnight of Film
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 to do it again, but let me tell you about the first time… When my YouTube channel was in its infant stage four years ago, the daily vlog was king. […]
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VeRtEx – photography project, Kurt Gledhill
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 to photography. Up until recently, probably 90% of my work has been horizontal. Whenever I put the camera to my eye, I always automatically, without thinking have the camera horizontal. […]
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How-to: Light portraits on film using LEDs + ideas for all budgets
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 constant lights for your lighting. In this article, I’ll chat a little bit about my workflow for portraits with photographic film and why I choose a certain light type for […]
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Night photography with the MiNT Camera Instantkon RF70 and Fujifilm Instax Wide film
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 mine. With the “iso” in Sydney having lifted in June, I was excited to have an opportunity to see what it could really do in low light. The Instantkon RF70 […]
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The Homemade Camera Podcast’s “Unconventional Camera Convention” is now on YouTube
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. I work alone, in a shop in my backyard, and in some ways I am a bit of a hermit. I have noticed, and really started to miss what little […]
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One Giant Leap… Remastering high-resolution images of NASA’s race to the Moon
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 photographic films and cameras used were arguably the best of their day, so why is it then, that the vast majority of the photographs appear to be of a low […]
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The evolution of the camera as seen through X-ray imaging
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 for it, just take a quick look on social media (and probably your own phone’s camera roll) to confirm it’s the norm rather than the exception. Fine art photographer Kent […]
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As a roll of film moves across the film plane: making a slit-scan camera
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 the streets of São Paulo. This story begins in June 1994 when Professor Andrew Davidhazy from Rochester Institute of Technology went to São Paulo, Brazil, to teach a workshop. The […]
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The Making of Hitchcock’s California: Vista Visions From the Camera Eye
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 book features a portfolio of eighty panoramic photographs — shot on the Hasselblad XPan system — that revisit locations from the Golden State the legendary director used in filming many […]
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I’m using Minecraft to host a charitable photographic exhibition in a physically isolated world
Exploring how one film photographer created an art gallery in Minecraft for a unique photographic exhibition.
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Featured project: Human Remains / Restes humains
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 of 2007? My wife had already been working abroad for several months. I felt lonesome and I was doing my best to keep on carrying on when the phone rang […]
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Staying creatively engaged: Drawing your crazy dream camera
I’ve been trying to keep my local film photography community here in the Philippines creatively engaged as we’re 3 ½ weeks into…
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Pandemic on Polaroid: Sheltered at Home
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…
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Stuck at home? The “Stuck At Home Photography” blog has you and your creativity covered
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 my wife, the painter Debbie George, where we both worked. We had our own work that we wished to do and had three small children to bring up, so we […]
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Measure twice, cut once: building my multi-format 8×20, 16×20 and 12×16 camera
I lived most of my life in São Paulo, Brazil, with its 20+ million people. I have photographed São Paulo in many different ways, but ever since I got a box of expired 16×20” lith film I have imagined shooting large landscape negatives with lots of details and contrast, this is a small tale about […]
