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52 Photo Tips Part One: Tips 1 to 13
Since January, I’ve been writing a series of film photography tips in collaboration with the wonderful Film’s Not Dead. Film is undergoing something of a renaissance after a decade or so of decline,...
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The Chap Olympiad 2015
Come early July, there’s a little corner of London that makes flesh all the best – or worst, depending on your point of view – stereotypes of English eccentricity. A leafy London garden square plays...
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Five days in Malta
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve wanted to visit Malta. A sun-baked speck of rock in the middle of the blue Med, a crossroads for history stretching back into centuries past. Since I moved to London from...
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52 Photo Tips #15: Don’t put film in hold luggage
This is the 15th post in a series in collaboration with Film’s Not Dead. There is one surefire way to ruin your film. You don’t even have to go to the trouble of taking it out of its canister and...
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The Soundcheck Sessions: A decade shooting bands on film
This piece originally appeared on the fantastic Japan Camera Hunter site. Many thanks to Bellamy Hunt for featuring the project. It all began in Zagreb in 2004, in the dark calm of the Croatian...
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Analogue travel: Zorki Photo on the road
Photography and travel go hand in hand. For years before I began this blog, I’ve been travelling as much as I can – and always with camera and film in tow. Living in London the last few decades has...
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52 Photo Tips #16: Frames within frames
This is the 16th post in a series in collaboration with Film’s Not Dead. The frame within a frame is one of the simplest tricks in the photographic armoury. It’s up there with the rule of thirds as a...
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Heavy Trash in concert
Rock ‘n’ roll is dead – at least as far as record sales go. Album sales dwindle with every passing year. It’s in the live arena that it’s at its healthiest. Bands tour now like they did in the 60s. You...
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52 Photo Tips #17: Use leading lines
This is the 17th post in a series in collaboration with Film’s Not Dead. Photography draws much from the rules of painting. One of the most important is the use of leading lines. When our eyes see a...
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Cosina CX-1 review
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be first. The Cosina CX-1 is a Japanese zone-focus camera which was released in 1980. It was small enough to out in your pocket, had an automatic mode for fuss-free...
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Photo sharing for film photographers
With digital photography has come a culture of sharing photography almost unheard of to those who grew up in the analogue, family album days. Photos might not be printed much these days (a situation...
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52 Photo Tips #18: Use a handheld light meter
This is the 18th post in a series in collaboration with Film’s Not Dead. One of the big stumbling blocks that prevents people trying film – especially with older cameras – is metering. We’re used to...
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52 Photo Tips #19 – Use a polariser in sunny weather
This is the 19th article in a series in collaborations with Film’s Not Dead. Filters might seem a bit old-fashioned now; the effects that photographers used to get with a thin piece of glass on the end...
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FED 50 review
The Olympus Trip 35 is one of the most famous film cameras of all time. It came out in 1967 and production didn’t end until 1984; not bad for a camera that still metered via a selenium cell. The Trip...
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52 Photo Tips #20 – Shoot lots
This is the 20th article in a series in collaboration with Film’s Not Dead. Film costs too much. Film itself is expensive. You can spend a fortune as a beginner with no guarantee that your talents will...
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Black and white in Istanbul
Istanbul in October. The days are drawing shorter. The tourist hordes – trains of slow-moving sightseers snaking their way from Byzantine church to towering mosque – have begun to dissipate. The hotels...
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Istanbul on the LC-A 120
Lomo cameras and Istanbul are a match made in heaven. The scruffy, bustling, majestic, gritty, city suits the wide-screen perspective and dramatic vignetting. The saturated, surreal colours from...
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Eight reasons digital photographers should try film
The benefits of shooting film sometimes, unfortunately, get lost amid the playground fight between film and digital devotees. The plus points – and believe me there are plenty – get drowned out. That’s...
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Seville on the Lomo LC-A 120
Seville has been on my list of cities to visit for some time. When I’ve asked people what their favourite …Continue reading →
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The Holga: The toy camera that sparked a revolution
It’s plastic, flimsy and can be a right royal pain to load. Even if you manage to get your film …Continue reading →
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