This page lists all my photography articles to date. Most of these were published on 35mmc or Casual Photophile. Some articles defy easy categorisation, and therefore appear under more than one heading. This has the added benefit of making me look more prolific than I am.

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REVIEWS

​Cameras

• Rediscovering Film Photography with a Minolta X-370s

• Minolta Autocord TLR: First Impressions

• Pogo 35mm Focus Free Camera

• Ihagee Exa

• Fujifilm X-E4 and the Paradox of Minimalism

 

Lenses

• Leitz Tele-Elmar 135mm f/4 – Leica’s Secret Sonnar

• Voigtlander Ultron 28mm f/1.9 LTM

• ​Minolta MD 28mm f/2.8

 

Film

• Kodak Ektar 100 Colour Film

• Eastman 2366 ISO 6 Blue-Sensitive B&W Film

• Argenti Scale-X B&W Reversal Film

• Argenti Nanotomic-X B&W Microfilm

• Argenti Noa Noa B&W Traffic Surveillance Film

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Books

• Why It Does Not Have to Be in Focus and Out of Focus

• Magnum Contact Sheets

• Perspectives on Place by JAP Alexander

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Accessories

• Godox AD100 Pro – The Perfect Off-Camera Flash For My Needs

• Godox Lux Senior Flash – Street Portraits and First Impressions

• Godox Lux Senior and Lux Junior Flashes – In-depth Review and Comparison

• Godox AK-R21 Projection Attachment and AK-S Slide Set

• Sirui T120 Telescopic RGB LED Light – I See You Have Constructed a New Lightsaber

• Sirui B25R Bendable LED Light – It Bends!

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DARKROOM

• Darkroom Technique series:

  • Part 1: How to Build a Darkroom for £100 or Less

  • Part 2: Knowing Little, Aiming High

  • Part 3: Cat-and-Mouse with Exposure and Contrast

  • Part 4: Split Grade Printing

  • Part 5: Dodge, Burn and Other Heresies

  • Part 6: Three Ways to Make Contact Sheets and What They Can Tell Us

• Contrast and Tonality series:

  • Part 1: Histograms of Famous Photographs and What They Can Teach Us

  • Part 2: The Curves Tool, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Contrast

  • Part 3: Characteristic Curves for Film and Paper

• How to Get Started Developing Black & White Film for £25 (or Less)

• The Joy of Small Prints

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PINHOLE CAMERAS

• Nine Homemade Pinhole Cameras

• Making and Using a Cardboard Pinhole Camera

• Making, Measuring and Testing the “Optimal” Pinhole

• Book Reviews – Why It Does Not Have to Be in Focus and Out of Focus

• Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2021 – “Uncertainty But Also Joy”

• A Calculator for Pinhole Camera Design

• Making Pictures with a Cracker – Cámara Galletita Challenge

• Pinhole Photographs of a Kolkata Street Market (PDF)

• Cyclopin: My Stereoscopic Pinhole Camera Made from a Cardboard Box

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STEREOSCOPY

• My First Forays in Stereoscopic (3D) Photography

• Learning to Free-View: See Stereoscopic Images with the Naked Eye

• Stereoscopic Singapore: Making of a 3D Photography Project

• Cyclopin: My Stereoscopic Pinhole Camera Made from a Cardboard Box

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PHOTO SERIES

• 5 frames in Kolkata with a Leica M3 and Voigtländer 28mm f/1.9

• Copenhagen with a Leica M3

• 3 Focal Lengths in Danish Marshland

• Façades of Kolkata, and the Value of “Boring” Projects

• A Whole Roll of (Mostly Failed) Experiments with a Minolta Autocord TLR

• Stereoscopic Singapore: Making of a 3D Photography Project

• 5 Frames with a Leica M3 in the Singapore Botanic Gardens

• Ichi-Go Ichi-E with the Fujifilm Instax Square SQ1

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COLLABS & INTERVIEWS

• Lockdown Lumen Part 1 – Artists around the World Printing with Sunlight

• Lockdown Lumen Part 2 – Artists around the World Printing with Sunlight

• Nine Homemade Pinhole Cameras

• Katie Melua on Shooting the Album No.8 Cover with Film

• Photography Theory and Practice – A Collaborative Project

• An Experiment in Looking at Photographs

• Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2021 – “Uncertainty But Also Joy”

• “Blur is a Part of Life” – A Collaborative Project

• Making Pictures with a Cracker – Cámara Galletita Challenge

 

THEORY

​Technical

• Colour Theory for B&W Photography

  • Part 1: Digital and Analogue Filters

  • Part 2: Spectral Sensitivity of B&W Film​

• Monkeying Around with Focal Length and Perspective

• Making, Measuring and Testing the “Optimal” Pinhole

• A Calculator for Pinhole Camera Design

• Life-like Finders and Photo-like Finders: The L–P spectrum

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Philosophical

• Photography Theory and Practice – A Collaborative Project

• An Experiment in Looking at Photographs

• Façades of Kolkata, and the Value of “Boring” Projects

• “Blur is a Part of Life” – A Collaborative Project

• How Many Cameras to Take on Holiday?

• Photography Words in Other Languages

• Ichi-Go Ichi-E with the Fujifilm Instax Square SQ1

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FILM DIGITISING​

• Getting Started with pixl-latr

• Camera Alignment and Focus for Film Digitisation

• How to Find Your Optimal Camera Settings for Film Digitisation

• Film Digitising Comparison: Dedicated Macro Lens vs Attachments; Full-frame vs APS-C

• Digitising and Editing Film Photos with Free, Open-Source Software:

  • Part 1: Basic B&W Editing​

  • Part 2: “Fake HDR”

  • Part 3: Working with RAW and Advanced HDR​

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• NUS Museum (Singapore: 2023-24)

• Muestra Internacional de Fotografía Estenopeica (Buenos Aires, Argentina / Monterrey, Mexico: 2023)

• Festival Pinhole Perú (virtual exhibition: 2023)

• Oaxaca Estenopeica: Estenopeica sin Fronteras (virtual exhibition: 2021, 2022, 2023)

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ALSO FEATURED ON​

• The Online Photographer

• Ilford website: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 

• Ilford’s Instagram page: 1, 2

• Photopocene podcast
• Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day gallery: 2021, 2023
• Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights, and Speculation (cover photo)