‘Photobook Phenomenon’

I got hip to Photobook Phenomenon many months ago, thanks to Jorg Colberg and Conscientious. It’s less a photobook than a collection of zines, featuring theoretical and historical essays, a survey of great book(cover)s from Martin Parr’s collection, and a poster, all held together in a sealed slipcase with a pull-tab that you need “Remove only …

Kodak Vision 2 100T: 1 Year, 2 Lomos, 3 Rolls

FPP-rolled, expired Kodak Vision 2  100T, is a rather grainy, motion picture stock from the good people at the FPP. Beware: it’s got remjet, but if you manage to get that gunk off, and can pull the green out of it in post (or shoot with a strong-enough orange filter over your flash (or an …

Stephen Shore – ‘Uncommon Places’

What can one say about Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places that hasn’t already been said by someone more qualified, more intimately familiar, more theoretically grounded, more generally knowledgable? If you haven’t held this book in your hands and flipped slowly through the images, you owe it to yourself to do so, one day.

Barnaby Nutt – ‘Fabryka’

Barnaby Nutt is on a roll… first there was ‘No Constructive Conclusions’ with Wojtek and Pavel, then ‘Nighttime Adventures in Neopan’ with Smith, and just barely 2 months into 2018, here he is with ‘Fabryka,’ a solo zine of industrial estates in various stages of abandonment, the decaying factory towns that support(ed) them, and the …

Dan Smith/Barnaby Nutt – ‘Nighttime Adventures in Neopan’

Dan Smith and Barnaby Nutt like the nighttime, the way street lights pool and dissolve into the darkness, and their split zine ‘Nighttime Adventures in Neopan’ showcases this shared fascination. As Nutt writes, “Man’s attempts to remove the shadows and so keep at bay the imagined dangers lurking within, create a beauty that we feel excited …

Lomography Color 800 – first rolls review

Everyone needs a good, fast color stock. And with Fuji(not)Film discontinuing it’s excellent Natura 1600, it looks like we’re down to 4: Cinestill 800T, Fuji Superia X-TRA 800 (but for how long?), Kodak Portra 800, and Lomography Color 800. I’m sitting on a dozen rolls of frozen Natura, but that’s my retirement fund, so I’m …