Dmitri

The Future of Photography, Events and Submissions, Social Issues

This month’s letter covers the upcoming changes to the photography industry, lists five events and open submissions, and concludes with a brief focus on social/world issues. ✪ Note: You can receive community letters (in full) via email. Make it happen.

September ‘19 Community Letter

Elouise Antonina

A Local’s Look Into the Life and the People of a Small Mountain Town

Revelstoke is a quaint town in the eastern part of British Columbia. It boasts the most skiable verticals in North America at its local resort. With my camera, I took a step back from the chair lifts and black runs to have a deeper look at the town’s surroundings and the people who live there.

Revelstoke, Canada

Ruben van Luijk

Rens Horn

Printed Film Magic From Nadorst Publishing

Ruben van Luijk started giving photography serious attention at the beginning of our century with his Pentax KM. Back then, digital cameras gave sub-par results; his idea of a good machine was a mid-century workhorse used by documentary pros. It still is.

Leporello Series

Betty

The Most Comprehensive Instant Camera and Film Guide Online

SX-70 is a stunning camera. Along with film, it is one of the most technologically advanced products ever created. This is Polaroid’s finest offering; world’s one and only foldable instant SLR. The company that built it occupied a position of respect and commercial success similar to what Apple is enjoying today.

Polaroid Land SX-70

Kodak Factory Tours, Silberra Letdown, New Lomo Film, and Ransomware

This month’s letter covers an announcement from Kodak, adds an update from Lomography, expands on the Silberra film situation and summarizes two troubling findings from the world of digital imaging. ✪ Note: You can receive community letters (in full) via email.

August ‘19 Community Letter

Accessible, Fast, and Speciality Film Labs in Coastal B.C.

Prior to Vancouver, all of my film got developed at one of the seven labs in Chiang Mai. I’ve also had the pleasure of getting scans from Bangkok, Taipei, and Toronto labs, but Vancouver makes for the most recent year-long experience. Compared to northern Thailand, my new city makes purchasing film, cameras, and services a lot more convenient.

Where to Develop Film in Vancouver

Andrej Spilevoj

Steampunk Cosplay in Panevėžys, Lithuania 

My first encounter with dystopian fiction was George Orwell’s “1984. ” The book inspired me to earnestly and continuously seek movies and reads on the topic until I saw Mortal Engines. The 2018 film, based on the novel by Phillip Reeve, finally pushed me to make use of my camera.

Dystopian Fiction

Box Speed 

Louis Dazy

NASA

8 New Film Photography Products; Plus: Creative Projects and Listings

This month’s letter breaks down eight new photo product launches. Followed by the art project listings, recent photography/science news, and a few helpful reading suggestions. 8 New film photography products for summer 2019. Reviews, announcements, recommendations.

July ‘19 Community Letter

Bertie Taylor

A Photographer’s Set and Statement

I’ve always been interested in the theme of disconnection. At first, it was unconscious and then I noticed I was developing a certain theme in my photographs. Using shadows, pieces of glass, and different textures to convey a sense of something not being complete, unfulfilled.

Shades of Summer

Official Launch Brouchure

This is an official new film launch brochure (PDF) for Lomography Lomochrome Metropolis film — in 35mm, 16mm, 110, and 120 formats. With sample photos and descriptions. With permission from Lomography.

Lomochrome Metropolis

Joy Celine Asto

Take Kayo 嘉陽宗丈

2019 Edition

Shooting analogue cameras is not difficult, as long as you have a solid idea of how to do it right, which this guide should aptly provide. If you’ve already got your film and camera, scroll down to “Photography 101,” a three-part section about key photographic concepts.

A Beginner’s Guide to Film Photography

A List of All the Film Camera Reviews, Guides, and Stories on Analog.Cafe

A list of all the film camera reviews, guides, and stories ever published on Analog. Cafe, sorted by brand then model. Includes focusing mechanism and lens information. Only primary shooting modes listed: [A]perture/[S]hutter priority, [M]anual, or auto.

ALL FILM CAMERAS

Get Your Article or Essay Featured on Analog.Cafe

Analog. Cafe “A Film Photography Magazine” is a group effort. There certainly is no office; most of us never met. I’ve had an author send me submission while waiting for a delayed flight at an airport. Another came from an expat documenting his peculiar discoveries while living abroad.

OPEN CALL

Analog Photography: Reference Manual for Shooting Film

Last month, I received an email from Princeton Architectural Press. They offered to send me a review copy of Andrew Bellamy’s Analog Photography: Reference Manual For Shooting Film. Flattered, I agreed. The book arrived soon after, beautifully laid out throughout its 190 offset-type pages.

Book Review

Robert Buelteman

Beyond Cameras, Lenses, and Computers

Through the Green Fuse is a portfolio of images that I created as an interpretation and celebration of the design of being, and through them, to enhance my understanding of its nature. Nineteen years ago I felt the need to explore photographic processes beyond both traditional and innovative uses as the means to advance my self-expression.

Through the Green Fuse

And Yi Peng Festival in Chiang Mai

November full moon shines❡ Loy Krathong, Loy Krathong❡ And the water’s high in the river and the Klong❡ Loy Loy Krathong, Loy Loy Krathong❡ Loy Krathong is here and everybody’s full of cheer❡ We’re together at the Klong❡ Each one with a krathong❡ As we push away we pray❡ We can see a better day.

Loy Krathong

Natali Herrera-Pacheco

Venezuela

INobody will do anything. Not even me, sitting behind my desk, or comfortably lying on a chair in the living room. To move myself, you told me, at night, with my eyes open or closed eyes. It doesn’t matter because you can’t see anything. How lucky are you for remembering!

Everything counts

A Vancouver Rap Battle Event

The event is held at a The Red Room, a downtown Vancouver venue. Scheduled for an unusually early seven o’clock in the evening, ending at ten. Ken, who invited me to the event, met me around eight. He held his own show earlier, performing under “Swabski” at the University of British Columbia campus.

KOTD Level Up

2018

Hanoi’s architecture, transport, and people comprise an experience that embodies the ridiculous construction sprouts of northern China, the population density of Tokyo, entrepreneurial spirit of New York, and living standards of Southeast Asia. Much of the action happens on the street.

Hanoi

Paulo Monteiro

The region of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro is located in the northern interior of Portugal, bordering with Spanish Galicia. In this Marvelous Kingdom, as the writer Miguel Torga called it, we find a landscape of wild beauty and a people proud of an ancestral culture, of which it is a faithful depositary.

Saint Stephen feast in Ousilhão

We are surrounded by life in, perhaps, one of its most pleasing forms. Doi Suthep. Doi Suthep shades a small, northern Thai city from the last hour of tropical sunshine. Once the daylight fades, a single glowing dot remains floating in the void of darkness, marking the spot of the mountain-top temple.

A Beginner’s Guide to Film Photography

ALL FILM CAMERAS

OPEN CALL

Book Review

Shades of Summer

Through the Green Fuse

Loy Krathong

Everything counts

KOTD Level Up

Hanoi

Saint Stephen feast in Ousilhão

Isaan, On a Cloud

September ‘19 Community Letter

Revelstoke, Canada

Leporello Series

Polaroid Land SX-70

August ‘19 Community Letter

Where to Develop Film in Vancouver

Dystopian Fiction

July ‘19 Community Letter

Shades of Summer

Lomochrome Metropolis