Reflections on analog photography
NorthCam There is something reassuring about picking up a Nikon F, F2 or F3 and realising that a camera built decades ago can still do exactly what it was designed to do: take photographs. These cameras were made to work, and many of them have survived years of professional use, travel, bad weather and less-than-gentle … Read more
A brief life in analogue printing, where blindness and pragmatism shaped the image Printing in the Dark Once, I was Head of Manual Work at a photo lab in Utrecht. It sounded official enough, until you said it out loud. Then the meaning shifted. We worked in darkness. Rows of machines, the smell of chemicals, … Read more
There is a great deal of talk and writing about analog cameras, and naturally the conclusions are tied to pages such as “the five best” or “the ten best” cameras, because that is what the boys and girls at Google seem to like. It is hard to escape the feeling that these reviews are mainly … Read more
The woman I was due to photograph at two o’clock that afternoon described herself as a burlesque performer. As a studio photographer I have learned that a certain amount of classification is unavoidable. Anyone who enters a large dark forest without recognizing its predators will inevitably be eaten alive.
