Unboxing ToP’s Four Photobook Book Sale

Back in early June, The Online Photographer, in conjunction with the Nelson Atkins Museum, ran another book sale. If you recall, a couple of months ago, I picked up a bit omnibus history-of-photography style book from a similar sale, so when this one went down, I jumped on it… Forewarned is forearmed, the video is …

Unboxing Hoxton Mini Press’s extra mini series

These three, cute little books came from a Kickstarter the folks at Hoxton ran a couple of months ago. The goal of the project is to support the hundreds of projects by great photographers that don’t make it into book form because the subject is not considered serious enough, or the photographer doesn’t have the funds, …

Unboxing Galaxy’s ‘Photographer’s Planner and Handbook’

Galaxy kickstartered this groovy little project planner back in November 2015 and it was successfully funded as of 1 December… Better late than never! To their credit, they sent me a 10% off coupon for the 2017 version (this one has calendar pages through June 2017) and a 20% off coupon for anything in their …

David Campany – ‘a Handful of Dust’

David Campany’s book a Handful of Dust is (unbeknownst to me when I purchased it) a catalog that accompanied his exhibition at LE BAL in 2015/16, titled ‘a Handful of Dust: from the Cosmic to the Domestic.’ Would that I had been through Paris during that time, and known about the exhibition: this book is …

the LC-A Instant Back+ and a (re)discovery

Along with the Diana Mini, the box that arrived from Lomography back in early April also held an LC-A Instant Back+… Fun! And if you’re confused about exactly what an LC-A Instant Back+ is and what it does (Mom was), after a considerable amount of fiddling about, it replaces the film door on the LC-A …