Sophie Harris-Taylor’s M T W T F S S: Chapter 1. 2010-2015, according to the cover, “is an autobiographical, fragmented, sporadic photo diary.” I was initially hoping for a bit more diary—there are scribbled snippets of what might be diary entries in the front and back, but no other text beyond page numbers, plus a list of …
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unboxing Printed Web 4
Printed Web 4: Public, Private, Secret appeared alongside the Charlotte Cotton/ICP exhibition of the same name, as well as Mossless 4: Public, Private, Portrait. I wasn’t at all aware of the Printed Web project, which sounds quite interesting and I would’ve spent more time with it, but the website is an absolute pain to navigate (likely …
Rosalind Fox Solomon – ‘Got to Go’
they call me piggy i eatbrown sugar and whipped creamnothing fills my emptiness father says why buy a cow if you can get the milk for free?
Rosalind Fox Solomon – ‘THEM’
they take our landthey take our money we pay them taxesthey let our garbage rot they hammer your headthey wrap you in the flagthey dance, and shoutmessiah messiah messiah
JCH: 32 vs 40
Last week, I mentioned that I did some a/b shooting with the JCH Street Pan, loaded in the Lomo LC-A (32mm) and the Ricoh 35 ZF (40mm), and promised a followup… Before I get into it, remember that the LC-A underexposed everything by a couple of stops for some unknown reason (possibly old batteries) and …
Unboxing ‘Patpong: Bangkok’s Twilight Zone’
Nick Nostitz’s Patpong: Bangkok’s Twilight Zone (London: Westzone, 2000) is not for the squeamish. The photography catalogues the nightlife of Bangkok’s Patpong district during the mid and late 1990s. I heard stories about Bangkok back then: a wild place where you could get and do just about anything, and where you could also wind up in …
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JCH Street Pan review
It’s been a long time coming, but I finally have two rolls of film developed, scanned, and processed. Here are my thoughts.