Features
Choose Film interviews Cool Girls Shoot Film
Choose Film recently interviewed the folks at the Cool Girls Shoot Film, the Tumblr dedicated to testing various films with different cameras and lenses then sharing their results online. Here we speak to Nora, co-founder for the site, on all things film. Please introduce yourself We’re two girls who started to get passionate about shooting [...]
Get acquainted with Camper Obscura
Have you heard of the Camper Obscura photographic movement? Choose Film interview Matthew Pontin and Jonathan Blyth, Creative Directors at Fotonow CIC and the guys behind theproject itself,to find out more. Please introduce yourselves: Sure. We’re Matthew Pontin and Jonathan Blyth, photographers and founding directors of Fotonow (CIC). Fotonow is a community interest company based [...]
Faces North to South – A story of travel, instant photography and people
Dale Reubin, a commercial advertising photographer, is about to embark on a journey of instant photography, travel, and people. Armed with an Instax camera and his wife, Laura, by his side, they will be traveling overland in their Land Rover from the UK to South Africa passing through 22 countries in 5 months, in order [...]
The Resurrection of Analogue – article courtesy of Pixel Magazine
In April’s issue of Pixel Magazine, traditionalists everywhere were treated to a lengthy feature on the rising popularity of analogue photography. The feature was born when Ilford’s reported its thousandth pinhole camera sale at the recent Focus on Imaging, paving the way for a flurry of comments and chatter on the rebirth of this style [...]
Sarah Hurley Instax Interview
Not familiar with ‘Scrapbooking’? – then check out our latest feature on Sarah Hurley and all will be revealed – in an instant! Sarah uses a Fujifilm Instax camera in much of her work, to see why, read on… Tell us a bit about yourself: I’m an illustrator, craft product designer and writer, I live [...]
Klaus Thymann
Think glaciers and what springs to mind? The Arctic or the Antarctic maybe or the Himalayas but Africa? OK, OK, perhaps you did think of the ice on Mount Kenya or Kilimanjaro (after the latter in particular has become one of the world’s adventure holiday destinations) but what about Mountains in Uganda? Have you ever [...]
David Constantine
To see David Constantine’s stunning street portraiture online or in his recently published book is a pleasure, but to see them in a gallery setting, beautifully printed, mounted and lit is a privilege. The prints come alive with the vivid colours almost leaping from the walls. Most of David’s work is shot in developing countries [...]
Interview with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy film stills photographer Jack English
Legendary musician Eric Clapton calls him his ‘favourite photographer [who] does great work’. Now Jack English has another lifelong fan in actor-director Gary Oldman who describes him as ‘a true artist with a camera’. This British artist has worked his ever-evolving creativity worldwide in a number of areas, including fashion, music and film photography. In [...]
Back home on the range – article courtesy of the British journal of Photography (BJP)
This is an abridged version of a piece printed in a recent issue of BJP – to read the full article, click here. Many thanks to the BJP for allowing us to use this article. Give me a rangefinder and I’m a happy man, says Jonathan Eastland, who argues they still can’t be beaten for [...]
ANALOG exhibition traces London’s darkrooms
The impact of digital technology on print photography and music production is the subject of ANALOG at Riflemaker in London’s Soho, from 10 January 2011. The exhibition invites us inside the last of London’s photographic darkrooms, as well as taking a visit to a working reel-to-reel music studio, courtesy of an installation by Lewis Durham [...]
