I remember vividly the day my photography tutor gave me a Pentax Spotmatic to take some photographs for a project. It was like being given new eyes, after box brownie, Instamatic and Salina Paulette, it was a revelation that I could actually see what I was photographing in real time and what seemed like 3D […]
I’m an amateur photographer who, after a long hiatus, has reconnected with my love of taking pictures again. It all began when I was 18 and my dad asked if I’d like to take a photography course with him. Back then, our medium of choice was black and white film, which we learned to develop […]
With a film photography background, for Brice Gelot, when you make a mistake, there are three things you should do: admit it, learn from it and don’t repeat it. You always learn from failure, not from success.
Having started with Photography after the birth of his lovely daughter, friends and family quickly asked him to do photoshoots with their children. And so began the brilliant and promising career of Francesco Gallo, from Naples, Italy.
Like many photographers ‘of a generation’, when I began using cameras, they used 120, 5×4 and 35mm. Over my photographic exploration, I used cameras from all the usual suspects and all the formats. I always had a liking for rangefinder cameras, and the Fuji 6×4.5, 6×7, and 6×9 cameras were wonderful. In 1999 I bought […]
Twenty-three years ago I was sitting under the stars near Idaho City during summer break when the photo editor for the local university’s student newspaper, full of rum and smelling of campfire smoke, offered me a job. It paid the princely sum of $10 per published photo if I had a camera. I told him […]
One of the places I regularly return to take photographs, one of my long-term series, is an old bridge, but not so old that it can be described as historic. It’s not a sumptuous monument but a place of interest to me. Let’s take it from the beginning. There used to be a military area […]
I’m Charlotte, a 24-year-old Parisian working in the communications field, and the happy owner of a Fujifilm X100V. How it all started. I think I got my first camera ever when I was 10. My parents organized this big birthday party with a bunch of friends, in my family home in the French countryside. So […]