I don’t know why the Old Alton Bridge and surrounding trails are so crushed with graffiti, but they are… Thankfully, it seems to mostly be neutral or left-leaning, and we saw few swastikas or white power or MAGA stuff that wasn’t covered or otherwise blotted out. After all, to quote some graffiti on the back of a bench near the entrance, “The Only Good Fascist is a Dead Fascist.”
Continue reading “Old Alton Bridge in Half Frame”Gary Briechle – ‘Maine’
If not for Charcoal Books, I likely wouldn’t be aware of Gary Briechle. His first, self titled, monograph Gary Briechle was the Charcoal Book Club selection for June, 2018, and this book, Maine, featuring color digital photographs made roughly concurrently with the collodion prints featured in his first book, was the Charcoal selection for February, 2019.
Continue reading “Gary Briechle – ‘Maine’”Hydrochrome Sutton’s first roll
Lomography are always full of surprises… They took the Sutton-type lens and plastic shutter from the awful LomoMod 1, and the 35mm back for their Belair camera, stuck a plastic cone-thing and part of a Belair camera body in between them, and *poof new panoramic camera!
Apologies, but I haven’t photographed the camera, so you’ll have to make do with Lomo’s store page about it.
Continue reading “Hydrochrome Sutton’s first roll”J A Mortram – ‘Small Town Inertia’
Small Town Inertia is a moving collection of Jim Mortram’s portraits of his friends and neighbors in Dereham, UK, portraits that Dave Stelfox, writing in 2014 in the Guardian called “intimate depictions of social exclusion in Britain.” I couldn’t describe it any better, really, so let’s get into the unboxing.
Or, just go order a copy and see for yourself!
Continue reading “J A Mortram – ‘Small Town Inertia’”reloading 126 cartridges: Kodachrome X
Given the issues I had with the Fakmatic (light leaks, inability to track progress, requirement to wind multiple times), I decided to try my luck with some 126 cartridges and ordered up a few expired rolls.
A roll of 1975 expired Kodachrome X was first to arrive. I reclaimed the film, wound it onto a 120 spool, and shot it in the Yashica-Mat 124 with near-disastrous results. The Kodak cartridge was very difficult to pop open; I ended up tearing the plastic in a few spots. But it still seemed close enough to light tight, so I carefully spooled some Fomapan 200 into the Kodachrome backing paper, loaded the pack into the camera in a dark bag, and got to shooting.
Continue reading “reloading 126 cartridges: Kodachrome X”Art Gore – ‘Speak Softly to the Echoes’
I stumbled across Speak Softly to the Echoes in a Half Price Books some years ago. It was cheap and I snatched it up for the combination of image and text more than anything. It’s given me an idea about something, reminded me of a twitter exchange (I think… I can’t find it now) some months back with Andrew Molitor that I won’t go into here…
Continue reading “Art Gore – ‘Speak Softly to the Echoes’”Focal Color 126 (1982): small victories near the beginning of 2021
Sometimes, a little flash of beauty is all you need.
Continue reading “Focal Color 126 (1982): small victories near the beginning of 2021”