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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.
Unboxing ‘The Film Photography Handbook’
Chris Marquardt and Monica Andrae’s The Film Photography Handbook is an English translation of 2015’s Absolut analog. The translation is good and, from what I’ve read, a bit of German-ness shines through in some of the phrasing and aphorisms. It’s written mostly for newbies and the curious digital shooter, and because it’s Chris, it’s primarily a …
Unboxing Mossless #3 & #4
“MOSSLESS is run by Romke Hoogwaerts and Grace Leigh out of their apartment in Brooklyn, New York. Their publications focus on photographers who are actively contributing to online culture.” I follow their tumblr and it alerted me to their Kickstarter for Issue 4. I picked up Issue 3 The United States (2003-2013) and Issue 4 Public/Private/Portrait for a relative song, …