medium format
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
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 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
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 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
Visuals on film, by Madhana Gopal
"Film never ceases to surprises me." Tell us about yourself. I am 25, born and brought up in Madras. I have lived here all my life and the city has been a major part in what I am as a photographer. So yes I am a documentary photographer who produces visual content for living. It is hard to make a living just being a documentary photographer unless you have made a name for yourself. So i create visual content like music videos, product photography, corporate films which fund my life and my p
Falling for film, by Sandra Singh
"I'm in a long term relationship with my 35mm Asahi Pentax Spotmatic and its 50mm 2.0 lens" Tell us about yourself. I'm a 25 year old photographer from Munich, Germany and study photography at the University of applied science Munich. I also do some social and creative workshops with children on the side. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I started analogue photography in 2012, making darkroom prints from a photoshoot with me modeling as a astronaut. We shot some rolls t