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Electric Castle Festival on film! by Cristina Cârâc
"I think I can say that Zenit E remains one of my favorites so far" Tell us about yourself. I am 29, from Braila, but living in Bucharest - Romania. I work for a multinational company dealing with customers queries from the DACH region, that are in need of the company’s voice systems for their businesses. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I started shooting film in March 2009, after I found a Zenit E in my father’s photography drawer. I asked him if it still works, and h
Why I am Reverting to Analog for my Professional Work.
Okay, let's just start by saying it is not easy let me tell you. But I do find it necessary. To me, to my art, to my clients. Mostly me though. It is, however, a decision I feel I should have taken long ago, as it had been pretty much clear to me from the get go that digital was not for me. Or I was not for it. Whatever. Now, how do you convince a client? How do you even approach such issue? Well, you don't. I have tried, don't get me wrong. I have been so passionate about using film for
People on medium format, by Pavel Køndratiev
"I would choose anything but the positive film" Tell us about yourself. I was born in Moscow in 1987. Actually, I have finished a law education, but I work as a photographer. My specialization is fashion and commercial shooting. Yashica MAT 124 G + PAN F 50 When and how did the film journey begin for you? On my twentieth birthday I was given my first professional 35 MM film camera. My experience began with shooting musicians on their live rock shows. After that I bought a medium forma
Nevada and film panoramas, by Sean Megna
"I feel like I function much better if I get a few hours in the darkroom every week" Tell us about yourself. I'm turning 30 this month. I grew up right outside of Boston in Marlborough MA. I also lived in Boston for six years before moving to Brooklyn were I met my Fiancée, Dawn. Dawn is from Las Vegas and as we were both rapidly running out of money living in Brooklyn we moved out to Las Vegas. Since we moved to Las Vegas I've become a butcher. At the butcher shop I make a lot of Charcuter
Black and White without a doubt, by Avi Cohen
"It's a real love story!" Tell us about yourself. My name is Avi, I'm 24 YO from Haifa, Israel. Right now I'm an Architecture student trying to handle between photography and studies and in between working in photoshop, so photos are mainly part of my life. When and how did the film journey begin for you? Actually I was born into an age of film, as an 8 year old child I got a little Canon point and shoot camera that i shot with during travels and untill the age of 15 i used it to class
Ghosts and peel-aparts, by Brian Henry
"I shoot and experiment with anything I can get my hands on" Tell us about yourself. I am 26 years old and co-owner of a curiosity shop here in Baltimore, MD called Bazaar. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I became a serious film addict when I was in high school. My school was fortunate enough to still have their traditional black and white darkroom running and I spent countless hours in there, in complete fascination with processing and experimenting with my photograph
Film and music harmony, by Kristian Šimić
"Since the beginnig, I’ve been hit with infamous “gear acquisiton syndrome” pretty hard and over the years I crammed enough gear to last me two life times" Tell us about yourself. Hello, I'm Kristian, 38 years old. I'm from Zagreb, Croatia where I also work as tehnical support in logistics. Dirty Three, Zagreb 2012 When and how did the film journey begin for you? It all began in 2002. when my brother bought me Canon G3 digital camera, and not long after I noticed that almost all of t
Film escapes by Jaume Montané
"Photography gives me the opportunity to create and go by myself capturing the reality around me" Tell us about yourself. My name is Jaume, I’m 39 years old and I live in Barcelona. I work as a director and creative in Copilotos VideoAgency, a film production company that creates video contents for fashion and luxury brands: www.copilotos.com When and how did the film journey begin for you? My roots are cinema and I got into photography because it was one of the subjects I studied at f
Stories written on film, by Alina Noir
"Nature, people and urban landscapes were so beautiful, and different than everything I had seen before, that I wanted to capture these glimpses of passing splendour" Tell us about yourself. My name is Alina Noir, I was born and raised in Romania and right now I am living and working in Lyon, France, where I have a very nice little studio. I am a visual artist and author. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I have always been interested in film photography. All my family’
Meet Darren Greaves from FilmDev.org
"Before I knew it I had bought a small collection of old 35mm cameras and I was totally hooked" Tell us about yourself. Hello. My name is Darren Greaves, I'm 46 years old and I live in London. For my day job I'm a Computer Programmer. Some info on FilmDev FilmDev is a website that I created for sharing and comparing film developing “recipes” (combinations of film and developer). I created FilmDev in 2008 when I was looking to get into developing my own film. It occurred to me that
Thoughts and feelings by Bogusz Szulc
"Photography can be something more than simply "catching reality", that it can be conceptual and (like poems or songs) carry some thoughts and feelings" Tell us about yourself. My name is Bogusz Szulc, I'm 22 years old, I live in Poznań (Poland) where I'm studying photography at University Of Fine Arts. When and how did the film journey begin for you? It was 3 years ago. I met a girl, who was film photographer, I felt in love, and found my father's Minolta SR-1 with 35mm 2.8 lens - jus
What comes out of a Minolta and a roll of film, by Adrian Popescu
" I carry 2 cameras: one loaded with a b&w film, one loaded with a colour film (you never know)." Tell us about yourself. I’m 32 years old, I’m from Romania and I’m a design engineer. I was born in Ramnicu Valcea, a relatively small town in the centre of Romania, after graduating high school I lived for 12 years in Bucharest – university and my first job as a hydro power design engineer, now for about 1 year I’m working in Constanta for the Modernization of the Locks on The Danube – Black S