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, and a lot of chemicals! No, it’s not a sequel to Human Traffic, it’s a bold and exciting project from the man who helped bring us One Shot: Inchindown, the film […]
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Making a working LEGO wide-format pinhole film camera
The purpose of this article is to guide you through my journey from a random pile of colourful bricks, to a pretty much fully functional 6×12 LEGO pinhole camera. The camera went through various versions, good, bad and ugly, each with their strengths and drawbacks until finally, I got to what I felt to be […]
EMULSIVE’s most popular featured community projects of 2019
Passion projects abound in our global film photography community – you’re reading one right now – and I’ve been lucky enough to have published details of a fair few this year. The most popular ten of this year follow below but don’t let that fool you into thinking that’s all there were. Check out the […]
Creating the world’s largest darkroom? One Shot: Inchindown
It was in late May 2019 that I was first sent a 30 minute rough cut of a video called “Tanky McOneshot”. The short film was the first stab at a documentary tracing David S Allen and Simon Riddell’s efforts at creating what might well be the world’s largest darkroom. It’s a grand statement but […]
Loss, PTSD and finding my father in the searchlights
It all started with a conversation with my Dad in 2015.