Everything old is new again, all thanks and praise be to God. Iain McKell‘s latest book, New Girl Order, revolves around a group of young female artists and performers, and they look like the raver- and hippy-kids I grew up around, all happenings and experimenting with clothes and hair and ways of being… I honestly …
Category Archives: Reviews
Sohrab Hura – ‘The Coast’
What to say about Sohrab Hura‘s The Coast: Twelve Parallel Short Stories… Well, it was, I believe, the July 2019 photobook-of-the-month from the excellent Charcoal Book Club, and if I recall, it got a bunch of press, not all of it entirely positive, around its release. It’s made some best of lists for 2019, and, …
Andy Warhol – ‘America’
Andy Warhol loved America, warts and all, and America is his homage, his love letter, to it, to us, to US.
The Rikenon 40mm f/2.8, an appreciation
The Rikenon 40mm f/2.8 is one of my favorite lenses. It’s sharp enough, with good color transmission and not too much vignetting, and I love the field of view: it’s never too wide like a 35mm can sometimes be, and it’s never too tele like a 50 sometimes is (especially if you shoot with a …
“Yashica” MF-1 first (and only) roll review…
Yes, I backed the “Yashica” Absolute MF-1… Am I proud? Well…
Enter the RETO 3D
Yes, I was one of the 1,160 people that helped kickstart the RETO3D… Am I glad I did? Well… Sure, I guess. What is the RETO3D? Well, it’s a fixed-focus, 3-lens camera that makes three ~half-frame images which you can use to make some fun gifs and things! Sound exiting? Well, read on!
‘All Through a Lens, issue two’
“All Through a Lens,” issue two, is a different sort of zine from Eric Swanger (of Conspiracy of Cartographers fame), all about photographing while traveling, with contributions from Kat Swansey and Hannah Grace.
