film photography
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
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
Costa Nostra. By Livio de Mia
"I never had a digital camera." This selection of photos is a small part of a larger project entitled Costa Nostra (Our Coast), a collection of snapshot of the Adriatic coast of Abruzzo, Italy, my homeland. It is a trip along the beaches where human presence is perceived as still life. For this selection I've used a medium format Zenza Bronica ETRSi loaded with Fuji NPC160 and NPS160 but the project also includes shots with various 35mm and 120 films. Tell us about yourself. I'm 32 years
Film addiction, from Juraj Rapos
"I started just few months ago and I can´t stop it" Tell us about yourself. Im 29 years old,born in Slovakia.last year i moved to Amsterdam (Netherlands) to study photography at FOTOfactory Amsterdam. currently working at the hotel. When and how did the film journey begin for you? The film journey for me started when i was 12, i shot one roll of film, haha, but seriously i started just few months ago,and i can´t stop it.:) What type of film do you usually shoot and what made you cho
Girls only. By Mura Dylan
"When I’m finally satisfied with a picture, I want to do something different! Films allow me to do that. " Tell us about yourself. I’m 22 years old and I live in Belgium. I’m doing a masters in business engineering. I’m thinking about moving to Canada once I get my degree. When and how did the film journey begin for you? My dad had a Nikon TW2 and I was fascinated by the thing. Later, a friend of his sold me a professional SLR for almost nothing and I took it everywhere, even at school
Film is timeless, by Tom Sebastiano
"Digital is great, but film is beautiful" Tell us about yourself. Hi, my name is Tom and I’m a 48 year old salesman living in London. When and how did the film journey begin for you? In 1982, I bought my first camera a Fujica STX1. As a kid I loved to draw and paint, but as I got older I gradually realised that to be any good required a lot of time and practice neither of which I had the patience for. So I thought maybe I could experiment with photography as a creative outlet, I guess