Matt Martin is a photographer, curator, and promoter of photocopied photography… Photocopied photography? Yep. Check out @thephotocopyclub, which Martin founded, and his series “American Xerography 2016-2018.” In monochrome, the quality reminds me of punk flyers and zines, and has some relationship to Provoke and William Klein. In color, though, it’s something else.
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I stumbled across Matt Black’s American Geography “zine” while looking for something else, and just couldn’t help myself. First of, it’s another one to add to my mini-collection of “America*” books; second off, it’s sorta unique in that it’s meant to function like a zine or book, and (with two copies) as an exhibition, which appeals to my painting and art history backgrounds. It’s a strange and wonderful object, to be sure.
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I’m not sure where I got the idea to use some ancient Fuji Super G, exposed at EI 50 in the LC-A, as my first test of the Negative Digitizer function in the newish scanning camera (the Nikon D780). I’m also not sure how expired the roll of Super G was, or how it was stored… it was in the fridge for a couple of years, and I either bought it as part of a grab-bag of expired film, or received it as a gift,* but who knows how it was stored before that…
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I’m not too sure when or where or how I heard of Hiromix. It was after I (re)discovered photography (October, 2010), before I started shooting film (late-2013) and before I started reviewing photobooks and filming unboxings here (June, 2015). It was probably 2012 or 2013, sometime before I got into film, so I have an idea of when… but where, why, and how I first heard about her, I have no recollection.
One thing I do recall: Hiromix gave me a direction to head, something to strive towards that I sometimes forget, but still hope to find one day. Her work serves as an ongoing influence, and she’s one of my favorite photographers.
Continue reading “Hiromix – ‘Hiromix’”Yurie Nagashima – ‘Self-Portraits’
For all my claims to being a fan of 1990s Japanese photography, it was 2017 before I ever heard of Yurie Nagashima, and 2020 before I ever bought a book. Now, after spending quite some time with Self-Portraits, her new-ish book from Dashwood, now in its second printing, I need to get on bookfinder and find some more…
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The Zenit Horizon S3 u500 is a great camera. I don’t shoot it often enough.
Washi F is a sound-recording film repurposed as a niche photographic film from the self-proclaimed “world’s smallest film company,” Film Washi.
Here’s what happened when they met.
Continue reading “Washi Pano-F”Lomo Washi F
Back in April, I saw a couple of examples of Washi F film on Twitter, and though I didn’t (and don’t) need more film (I’m sitting on a couple of years’ worth), I immediately ordered up a handful of rolls from Freestyle, then shoved them in the fridge with the rest of the stock.
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