analog photography
Analogs in a digital era, by Nicola Neri
"In my fridge there are more films than food." Tell us about yourself. I'm 35 years old, I live and work in Milan, Italy. I'm an Art Director for a videogame company and I do photography during my free time. I have been doing only film photography for the last three years and in my fridge there are more films than food. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I started to shoot with my father’s film camera when I was 18, it was a beautiful Nikon FE. Then moved to digital and o
Film journey at the beginning, by Andrew Seywright
Louis likes to experiment with multiple exposures. Tell us about yourself. I am recently turned 27 and come from a small town called Gourock on the banks of the River Clyde Estuary. I now live in Hyndland in the West End of Glasgow working as an MI Analyst for a bank. When and how did the film journey begin for you? My film journey only started a month or so ago when I picked up my Dad's Olympus OM-2n which he bought with his 21st birthday money in 1981. A friend of mine let me know w
Keeping film alive, by Stephen Dowling
"Shooting on a Lomo back in 2000 is one of the reasons I’m such a film fan" Tell us about yourself. I am 42, and originally from New Zealand, though I have been living in London for the last 20 years. I am a journalist. For the last few years I have been a science editor at the BBC, though for many years before that I was a music journalist. It has been an interesting change of subject. In my spare time I run the blog Zorki Photo, which is all about film photography. I review cameras and
Instant moments with Sarah Elise Abramson
"Instant film will forever and always be very unpredictable" Remember Sarah Elise Abramson? We posted her article a while ago and now it's time for another one! When and how did you discover instant film? I honestly don't remember how I discovered instant film. I think I was already doing work in the darkroom when I found out that Polaroids could function as a usable and fun medium. I would just take photos of my friends and my feet and things like that. What type of instant film do y
Girls on film by Daniel Pestana
"I love Fuji because of the natural colours and by overexposing it I can get those wonderful pastel tones that I really love a lot." Tell us about yourself. I'm 37 years old, I'm from Reguengos de Monsaraz but I currently live in Lisbon, Portugal. I'm a Professional Translator. When and how did the film journey begin for you? My film journey began around 1988, when my father bought a Minolta Maxxum 7000. I started shooting with it, and the more I shot, the more I became in love with p
Film passion starts in basements too, by Marko Marković
"Canon AE-1. I carry it everywhere i go." Tell us about yourself. I’m 43 years old, from Belgrade, Serbia. Employed at McCann Beograd, a major advertising agency for the past 16 years. Currently I am working as a Digital Content Editor. My job is to create and prepare various web content. For one year now I am also taking photographs for one of our client’s social media channels. Canon AE-1, 50mm f1,4 Kodak Portra 160 When and how did the film journey begin for you? It began two year
Everyday life on film by Sebastian Cvitanic
"Before shooting it's really important to talk about the person's background and what drives them in life." Tell us about yourself. I am 34. I was born in the south of Chile also known as Patagonia. Most of my jobs have been retail related, and some commercial photography mainly done with a digital camera. "Portrait of Koyo" Yashica124G / Kodak Portra 400 When and how did the film journey begin for you? I discovered an "agfamatic" 110 format camera lying around the house in the lat
Chicks by Menna Ismail
"I would say that I never actually knew how to shoot photographs, until I started to use film. " Tell us about yourself. I am 22, born and raised in New York City. I am student, studying Advertising and Marketing at The Fashion Institute of Technology. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I used to be a digital photographer. I embarked on the journey of film this summer, when i realized how much the advanced editing tools were depreciating the art of taking a picture. To me
People from Rosaline Shahnavaz
"I loved the intimacy of the shots I was getting." Tell us about yourself. I'm 24 years old, from London and I'm a photographer. When and how did the film journey begin for you? My father's photographs of my mother have always been a big inspiration for me. He beautifully documented their relationship and when they first met. He gave me the camera he had shot these photos on and this was my first 'real' camera. I then began photographing my friends and my boyfriend obsessively. I loved
Citizens by Rossella Castello
"In the end, developing negatives, printing in the darkroom, playing around with chemicals was what made up my mind and made me shoot only film now" Tell us about yourself. Hey, I’m Rossella and I’m 21. I’m from Italy but I have been living in London since two years now. I am attending my last year of Photographic Arts. Tell us about the project Citizens Ten different shops, ten different cultures, one road. CITIZENS is an attempt to show how different ethnicities are cooperatively w
Film therapy from Kimberly Seabury
"I acquired an old Pentax film camera, and I was determined to figure it out." Tell us about yourself. I will be 28 years old this coming December, and I’m currently residing in Salem Oregon. I work as a Photo Technician at Photovision Film Lab also located in Salem Oregon. It’s a wonderful lab where I get to do all my own negative scanning and color correcting. When and how did the film journey begin for you? First I’ll tell you how my photography journey began. When I was 15 years ol
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