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31 December, 2018

The Lesser Photographer by CJ Chilvers – a particularly sage photography book

By Hamish Gill

The lesser photographer, a book by CJ Chilvers, is a reorganised and edited compendium of thoughts about photography taken from his blog. I suppose you could call it tips, or ma...

27 July, 2018

Hitchcock’s Rear Window – Watching the Watcher – By Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

Rear Window is a great movie, and taking photographs is the main character’s essential trait. Francois Truffaut, whose book turned director Alfred Hitchcock the man into one-nam...

11 May, 2018

Kodachrome Movie Review – it’s Good Even If it is About Family, Not Film – By Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

Any film photographer who saw an advertisement for Kodachrome likely reacted as I did: “Gee, I really should check out that movie.” If you follow through, you might be disappoin...

20 April, 2018

Good night sweetheart & my little rant about toothpaste

By Hamish Gill

Anil Mistry has become a fairly regular contributor to this website, I’ve also met him on a photowalk, joined his Unusual Eyes photo group of his on Facebook, helped him sell so...

25 March, 2018

‘Analogue Photography – Reference Manual for Shooting Film’ – a Strong Recommendation

By Hamish Gill

I don't write many book reviews on here - thank's to the allure of the dreaded internet, I'm no longer the book reader I used to be (short of the odd Thomas the Tank Engine et a...

14 March, 2018

Forward Motion – On the Road with Saint Etienne – By Mike Monaghan

By Mike Monaghan

My career behind the drums first took me on the road some 7 or so years back and since then I’ve had the good fortune to tour as far and wide as America, Europe, China an...

14 January, 2018

Helmut Newton- Pages from the glossies – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

This piece is all about a photography book that I love: “Helmut Newton- Pages from the glossies“ which focuses on his magazine work from 1956 to 1998. It’s a big book, running t...

21 October, 2017

Second City – Making My First Zine – by Richard PJ Lambert

By Richard PJ Lambert

I’m a very unprofessional, self-taught film photographer from Birmingham. There is always a camera in my pocket and I like to experiment with different techniques to capture the...

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