In Vantages, Kirk invites people to be photographed in his home studio in front of simple backdrops. Working with dual large format cameras, each portrait is exposed onto separate sheets of black and white film, simultaneously capturing two images of the…
Large scale photogravure prints by Silvi Glattauer Silvi Glattauer (born in Argentina) is a practicing photomedia artist from Melbourne, Australia. A founding member of The Baldessin Press & Studio, she is recognised as an authority on the Photopolymer Photogravure process…
During the 90’s when digital capture seemed to be really making photography redundant, and manufacturers began pulling the pin on making many films and papers that had been around for years, I did a mild panic. I went out and…
Peter Michael has confirmed this week that Michaels Camera in Elizabeth Street Melbourne will close on Friday 8 January 2021 ending 105 years of trading. Michaels Camera was very supportive to large format photography stocking sheet film in 4x5 and…
CatLABS is a US film camera equipment store and distributor, in 2019 they introduced their own brand of black & white negative film: x film 80. Their website says it’s a traditional, slow speed film along the lines of Kodak’s Panatomic-X, with…
Established in 2015 the Friends of Photography Group is a film photography group based in Melbourne. FoPG focuses on three main types of activity, day and weekend excursions, print viewings and darkroom tours and an annual exhibition. FoPG only managed two day…
A photograph thought to be the longest exposure image ever taken has been discovered inside a beer can at the University of Hertfordshire’s Bayfordbury Observatory in the UK. The image was taken by Regina Valkenborgh, who began capturing it towards the end…
Stearman Press the company who successfully made the SP-445 4x5 developing tank system, have just announced a Kickstarter project to fund an 8x10 sheet film…
A report of the ‘Pinhole photography weekend’ led by David Tatnall, 22-24 May 2015 Full disclosure: before this workshop, I was a complete pinhole photography…