One of the aspects that took me perhaps the longest to understand about black and white film photography – but, which turned out to have the most impact on my visual style – is that exposure is simply not real in any meaningful way. “Correct” exposure is incredibly subjective, especially true for high contrast lighting […]
Taking Risks Through a series of what felt like small and inconsequential life choices I have found myself recently in positions where the logical course of action involved putting my health and even my life at risk, in service of making photographs. I, like many others I’m sure, want to be a great photographer. To […]
Earlier this year in our interview with Walter Rothwell, he nominated Kris to take part in this series. We’re so glad that he did. Enjoy! Section 1 – Background Share your favourite image / print shot on ILFORD film and tell us what it means to you? One of my recent favourite images is this […]
The last days of Summer As the last days of summer drew to a close I worried about the stock of low ISO films I’d accumulated. As much as I’ve enjoyed my film only ventures over the last year I do worry about the availability of light in London where I do the vast majority […]
A rest day? Sunday the second of June (2019) was supposed to be one of the very few rest days I allow myself to have from photography. I find it very difficult to allow and forgive myself from taking a break from being out shooting, and after a very intensive few days I really did […]
I don’t think it will be long before we need to change the title of this series! We really hope that you are enjoying finding out more about some of the members of our community. This week, for our 11th interview, we have Simon King. He is probably best know for is street photography and […]
