film photography
Vai Yu Law: Reveal your feelings
"I find film photography always will convey something." Tell us about yourself. 31, Toronto Canada and I’m a teacher and photographer. When and how did the film journey begin for you? It started sometime when I was in high school. It could have started before that as my mother always took family photos of me and my sisters. I always liked looking through the photos after they were developed. But, I can vividly remember my 16th birthday though because I had taken a lot of photos using
Trey Pentecost: Simple, common experiences on film
"Some good friends gave me a Mamiyaflex and a few rolls of T-Max. I was hooked." Tell us about yourself. I’m 39, live in New York City, and run a small IT services company. I also occasionally shoot photos for money. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I guess when I was a kid. I used to love playing with cameras whenever I could, and I'm sure I wasted plenty of my parents' film. I got into it seriously in 2005 when some good friends gave me a Mamiyaflex and a few rolls o
Adam von Wolfsberg: WWII reenactment and civilians
"My first "real" camera - a 1930 Leica II." Tell us about yourself. My name is Adam, I am 26, and I live in Brno, Czech Republic. I'm importing and selling chocolate. "Volle Deckung!"; Leica IIIc (1941) + Leitz Summitar 2/50 mm; Agfa APX 100 When and how did the film journey begin for you? I wasn't much interested in photography at first. We had a compact analog camera when I was a kid, and later a digital camera, but I never used them much. But back in 2005, I got into WW2 reenactin
Marian Chinciusan: Shoot with whatever gets in your hands
"Olympus OM-1 for 35mm. It's the one I connected with." Tell us about yourself. Hello, my name is Marian, I'm 29 and I work as a web-developer. I grew up in small town in Romania called Tarnaveni and now I live in Cluj-Napoca. That's where I shoot the most. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I think it started about 2 years ago, when I shot my first rolls of film using an old Yashica 35mm SLR. I liked it, but I felt I needed to do more than just shoot and take the film t
Tom Ahrens: Mirrors of my feelings
"The interaction between the model and the photographer...you can see this in the pictures." Tell us about yourself. I'm from Germany, 40 years old and i live in Hanover, that's Lower Saxony. I worked as a photographer and a coach for photography years ago. Now it's just a hobby, but that does not mean i do it with less passion. Actually i think i've more fun than ever before, because i'm able to realize my own ideas now. When and how did the film journey begin for you? My first cam
Dennis Wisnia: No random shots
"I’m in love with my medium format Mamiya" Tell us about yourself. I’m 27 years old. Established in Hanover, Germany where I work as freelance photographer. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I grew up in a digital generation. My family made use of polaroid photography in the 80’s/ 90’s. I had my first experience with digital cameras, taking pictures of my friends skate and bmx actions. The outcome was sports photography. Now only portraits. Especially of beautiful wo
Kuzik Yan: Russian girls
"Bronica SQ-A, that is my love" Tell us about yourself. I'm only 19 years old, I'm living in Sevastopol, now it is Russia, you know. So I'm a student and I don't have some kind of "serious" job, all I do - I'm selling cameras, selling film, develop and scan it. That's my "job", but I get no money directly from photos, I shot what I want, an any time, any place. I'm free from "commercial jail" :) When and how did the film journey begin for you? My "film journey" began with a Kiev-19M a
Portraits of Resilience by Halim Ina
Arab Woman, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Almost two decades ago my photographic journey began with these faces, and to this day remains focused thanks to the lessons learned in their presence. While they were fleeing for other reasons at that time, the Syrians photographed in Lebanon lived a hand to mouth existence even then. They left their homes in search of a better life, and to escape a suffocating system in their own country. Although they lived in tents lacking running water, sanitation and
Matthieu Noiret: Just shoot film
Louis likes to experiment with multiple exposures. Tell us about yourself. I am 29 years old, I am french and I've been back in Strasbourg for the past two month after 3 years in west and north of Africa. To live i have a little photographic publishing house tdtf-publishing.tumblr.com and an army pension so am a little bit poor… but free and happy with that. When and how did the film journey begin for you? When I was kid i stole my father's Pentax ME Super with some black and withe f
Btihal Remli: Belief thorough medium format
"I was one of those collectors. Buying old cameras wherever I found them until I bought a Hasselblad and it was a perfect match." Tell us about yourself. My Name is Btihal Remli. I am a 28 year old moroccan girl currently based in Cologne Germany. Mainly I work on photographic projects, but as I graduated from Architecture I also work on different stuff. When and how did the film journey begin for you? My Film Journey began long time ago. I think when I was still a teenager. But after
Lee Whitehead: Film Noir
"I went and bought my first film camera that day and never looked back." Tell us about yourself. I’m 28 years old Photographer from Manchester UK When and how did the film journey begin for you? About 3 years ago I was doing some Street Photography in Manchester and met a Photographer called Mark Manzi, showing me his work he explained how using film had made him take his time when setting shots up and how having only 36 possible shots on a roll makes you consider what is worth shooti
Motoki Tonn: Film. Go for it
"I always take a contax or a Mamiya 7 with me." Tell us about yourself. I am already 42 years, though most consider me to be around 25 ;-) I do communication design for a living and some photography jobs as well. When and how did the film journey begin for you? It came from music and there I always was in the analog world (using the digital for production as well, but keeping most of the production chain analog). I always wanted to do more photography and directly started with analog,