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701 Reviews, Guides, and Essays

Portraits of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Killeen, Texas
June 4, 2020
The purpose of this project is to explore how the people are protecting themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic in my neighbourhood: Killeen, Texas. I find black-and-white film particularly effective for focusing the viewer’s attention towards the subject.
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Pentax PC35AF
‘80s Retrofuturism
June 4, 2020
Manufactured in the 1980s, this fully-automatic shooter features a unique autofocus mechanism, and a futuristic, for the time, design. The gadget packs quality, fast optics, and a reasonably-powerful flash into a pocketable, pleasing to hold and operate black plastic chassis.
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Film Photography News — May 2020 Recap
And the Winner Is…
May 26, 2020
Lomography’s new Aqua camera, and the magical new Cinestill chemicals. Plus: film photography competition!
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Forgotten World
Postcards From Aue
May 14, 2020
The world is smaller than it has ever been, yet it contains more than it ever has. Global communities have replaced local communities. International stock markets have supplanted farmers’ markets. Progress is made for the sake of progress. Progression is not just transition or movement; it is pursuit.
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What They Hide
From the Series ‘Cheekh’
May 11, 2020
Cheekh translates to “scream” from Urdu. This series is my, as of an artist, cry to society. Women are often regarded as symbols of beauty and grace. These ideals, however, are intertwined with a horrifying and ugly existence. My works focus on the concurrence of the sacred and the profane.
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At Work on Central Avenue
May 5, 2020
I made these photographs as I walked the 16 miles of Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona. The sequence starts in a rapidly gentrifying mid-town, following Central due south as it cuts through glassy downtown before dipping under Jackson Street and into the historically Black and Latino neighbourhoods of South Phoenix.
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Film Photography News — April 2020 Recap
A New World
April 28, 2020
Four photography projects and their battle to stay relevant and profitable during the global pandemic.
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Vivitar IC 101 Panorama
A 35mm Fake Panoramic “Garbage Cam”
April 16, 2020
A review of a cheap, plastic 35mm film camera that shoots panoramic stills.
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Kinesics
Looking Past Facial Expressions
April 13, 2020
“Photograph what interests you. ”A quote that I kept with me since reading it in an article a year or so back. It’s an esoteric quest that will always be hard to satisfy. Sure, one can enjoy different genres of photography. Be it landscape, documentary, street or portraiture; there’s a cornucopia to choose from.
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Film Photography News — March 2020 Recap
New Film, Products, Rebrands, Open Calls
March 31, 2020
New film from Lomography, a tiny light meter and the Hasselback Portrait instant film attachment.
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Waterways
Exploring London’s Canals
March 26, 2020
London’s canal system forms part of the Grand Union Canal; a 137-mile-long canal line running from London to Birmingham. I have always been fascinated by life on the waterways — especially since my mother lives full-time on a houseboat herself. A few weeks ago, on a rare day off, I decided to walk the canal route between Kings Cross to Little Venice — a part of London I had never properly explored before.
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An Immigrant Story
1999, 2020
March 22, 2020
Having landed back in Vancouver, I ride the train home in a stupor. As if I woke up from a lucid dream, not quite able to separate the reality from the mind’s fabrications. After moving to Canada in 1999, I never revisited my homeland until 2020. In Moscow, I lived with my grandma and grandpa while attending grade school.
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Call for Submissions — Monochrome at Home
Stay Home. Shoot Film. Help Others Do the Same.
March 18, 2020
Are you feeling cooped up at home, surrounded by film cameras, negatives, and Polaroids with photos taken indoors? I have a creative challenge just for you! This summer, I will be publishing the first issue of Monochrome print magazine/or zine/or mag.
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Dreary Town
March 17, 2020
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. This photo essay is inspired by the book Invisible Cities.
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Vancouver — an Urban Street View
March 10, 2020
Street photography. I’ve had an interest in urban street photography for some time now. It doesn’t pay the bills; for me, it is “for the love of it” kind of pursuit. I shoot what I see. There are no visual or aesthetic goals. It’s just what leaps out and grabs me at the time.
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A Seven-Month Trip Across Asia
With a Small Backpack, My Pentax K1000, and Eight Rolls of Film
March 3, 2020
Back from my seven-month Asia adventure. Haven’t got much to unpack: I travelled with one small backpack that can fit on a plane as a carryon. I didn’t limit my packing space to follow a minimalist fad or to make a statement. I did it so that I would not have to pay the baggage fees and wait like a peasant around the airports’ luggage carousels.
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Rollei 35B
The Smallest* 35mm Film Camera, Its Quirks, Operation, and a Brief History
March 1, 2020
One of the smallest German design 35mm film cameras ever made — priced affordably.
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Film Photography News — February 2020 Recap
7 Product Launches, Discontinuations, Backer Pains, Ethics, and Creativity
February 25, 2020
Four new Kickstarter projects, new Lomography products, and a relationship between analogue medium and creative success.
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A Simple Guide to Using Flash on Manual Film Cameras
Achieve Greater Control Over Your Artificially-Lit Photographs
February 20, 2020
No light meter, no exposure guesstimates — just zone focus, look up your 𝒇-value, and click. Operating flashguns with no sync at all, like in the photograph above, can be done with any camera that has a Bulb setting and provides control over the aperture.
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Lombok, Indonesia
February 18, 2020
Lombok is an island east of Bali, a part of Indonesia’s West Nusa Tenggara province. Lombok’s unspoiled landscape and preservationist traditions set it well apart from the touristy beach towns of its western neighbour. Lombok’s Sade Village people pride themselves in their freedom from the technological gadgetry most of the world can’t seem to live without.
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