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Monochromes on medium format, by Vitalis Gerin
"Medium format is what makes me click!" Tell us about yourself. Howdy fellow film lovers, my name is Vitalis Gerin and I am an amateur photographer from Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania which is a small country in Central Europe. All my (yet short) life (I was born in 1984) I have been studying and working in a technical field but I always felt that Art is my true passion. When I was younger I liked to draw and to play music (played a trumpet in school's orchestra) but I abandoned i
Hidden faces on film by Mariana Dias
"It's amazing what film can give us." Tell us about yourself. I am 29 years old. I am based in Porto, Portugal and right now I am taking Masters Degree on Contemporary Art. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I started shooting film with an artistic purpose on 2013. I've started using photography as an artistic method during my degree on Fine Arts, back in 2009, but only digital back then. Thanks to a good friend of mine, also a major inspiration as well since she's a phot
Love for film from Eugene Scream
"Use of Photoshop with film photography is strange." Tell us about yourself. Hi! My name is Eugene Scream. I am 22 years old. All my life I lived in Taganrog, a small town in southern Russia, but now I live in St. Petersburg. I don't like it when people call me a photographer. I prefer the Fine-art photographer. Speaking in Russian, it sounds beautiful and makes you wonder. This is a man who writes a picture, but it does so using the camera. This highlights the creative and artistic approac
Shoot film and never go back, by Martin Kuntke
" When i picked up the scans and saw the results, i fell in love again with film and since then i never shot digital." Tell us about yourself. I am 27 years old and I am living in Berlin (Germany). I have got a totally boring but also extremely stressful office job as a callcenter agent. I really hate it but I need to do something for a living. No money no honey haha! But I also have some photography jobs sometimes. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I have been intereste
Film is different, by Vincent King
"Film changed my way of looking and working with certain subjects" Tell us about yourself. I’m Vincent King ( Vince) I’m 24 years Old and I’m from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. My current occupation is studying Communication and Multimedia Design at the school of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam. When and how did the film journey begin for you? My film journey officially started when my girlfriend bought me a Diana F+ Camera from Lomography. That was in the summer of ’12 or ’11 I think. I
Film Thrill from Alex Urban
"Manual focusing with the Pentax 67 is just a breeze" Tell us about yourself. I am 32 years old and from Regensburg, Germany. I am studying business information technology and I am also a freelance photographer. When and how did the film journey begin for you? In April 2014 I saw spooky photographs from the early 20th century of children wearing their hand-made Halloween masks. I wanted to recreate the setting and the mood so I decided to shot the whole project on film. After I got the
Girls and the analog virus, by Georg Schmidt
"I bought an old polaroid- land camera from a flee market, so that's when I got the virus for analog stuff" Tell us about yourself. I`m 48 years old and i live near to Frankfurt/Germany. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I came in contact with photography because we have launched our online shop for clothing and acc and we needed to build up our products on images. At that time i bought an old polaroid- land camera from a flee market, so that's when I got the virus for a
Film photography without borders, by Halim Ina
"The people's willingness to lay themselves bare to the camera, and to allow their stories to be transferred to film, is an honor which can only be returned by making the visual record faithfull" "Through the portraits displayed on these pages, over 400 girls living in rural India now have access to a quality education. In cooperation with Humana People to People India and Nirvanavan Foundation, schools have been introduced to villages where the education of girls was truly suffering. Many of
Guest post: 7 Reasons you should get a 2 ½ x 3 ½ Graflex right away
This post was written by Cesar Romero. As a film photographer, I was always tempted to try large format but it looked so difficult and unreachable, so for some time I just admired young virtuous people like Mat Marrash on flickr but nothing more. One day in a GAS rush I found what seemed a large format camera in good shape, but a sentence in the advert caught my attention “includes a 120 film back” so I thought “I already know how to shoot and develop 120 film and this could be a good start
People on film by Lester Cannon
"The photos came back great and I was sold on film from then on." Tell us about yourself. I am from California but currently living in Germany. When and how did the film journey begin for you? When I got back into photography in 2011 I noticed that many of the photographers who I admired or thought their photos had a unique look were film photographers. After seeing the amazing results that film could produce I decided I needed to shoot film also. I had no clue what to buy and my fir
Culture swap: Romania - Russia
Film can travel! The onfilm.photo community members did another film swap! The artists are two young girls who used our swap center. Meet Polina Kishova and Crista Oiegas. They used a roll of Fomapan ISO 200. The first shooter was Crista. She used a Canon AE-1 Program. All the shots are taken in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, including some portraits of her best friend. Then came Polina. She used a Lomo LC-A and shot in Belarus and Russia. You'll see people, buildings, pipes, cathedrals
Portraits by Denis Dunaj
"When I started shooting film a whole new visual dimension opened up to me." Tell us about yourself. I am 30 yers old, living in Zagreb, Croatia. I work as a key account manager in a custom agency but also doing some work in IT When and how did the film journey begin for you? My film journey began in 2012 when i bought my first film camera Minolta x300. At that time I was shooting with Canon 5D Mk II but when I started shooting film a whole new visual dimension opened up to me. The col