Interview with Mona Kuhn
Mona Kuhn’s photographs of groups of beautiful naturists lounging around in apparent lazy luxury have sparked international interest. She was a finalist in the BMW-Paris Photo 1st prize for Photography, and her luscious large format colour prints are in demand…
Profile: The Fox Darkroom, Melbourne
I recently received an email from Tom Goldner of The Fox Darkroom telling me about his recently established darkroom in Melbourne. It’s great to see a new facility for film photographers become available in this digital day and age and so…
Interview with Melbourne large format photographer Kate Robertson
When, how and why did you become interested in photography? I became interested in photography fairly early on. I was about twelve years old when I would go bushwalking with my dad on Mount Buffalo (North East Victoria, Australia). My…
Interview: Robert James Elliott by Christopher Deere
“I suppose what really got me back into shooting Large Format was the collection of old cameras I had hanging around and the desire to start to get them working again. Some of these go up to 6 ½ x…
Overexposed? Camera Phones Could Be Washing Out Our Memories….
Los Angeles blogger Rebecca Woolf uses her blog, Girl’s Gone Child, as a window into her family’s life. Naturally, it includes oodles of pictures of her four children. She says she’s probably taken tens of thousands of photos since her…
Interview with Linsey Gosper, Director of Strange Neighbour Gallery and Darkroom
More at FotoFilmic FotoFilmic: Can you briefly describe the type of analog photography facilities & services you offer? Strange Neighbour: Strange Neighbour Darkrooms are dedicated to promoting and preserving darkroom practice. The spacious and well-equipped black and white darkroom and…
Interview: Lloyd Shield by Christopher Deere
The first thing that should be said about Lloyd Shield’s photographs is that they are undeniably photographs – often made so, in the showing, by the inclusion of the outlines of their large-format frame holder in the final picture. His…
Interview: Kate Baker & David Roberts by Christopher Deere
It’s almost too overwhelming for any serious shutter-bug to visit Kate Baker and David Roberts: to see how they have found and made a place that is so well-suited to the pursuit of high-craft photography, with all of the material…
New interview series by Christopher Deere.
A new series of profiles featuring Australian large format photographers will be on line here soon. Journalist Christopher Deere has begun interviewing large format photographers whose profiles and photographs will be featured on this blog soon. The first in this…
Eastern Sierra Center for Photography: Brief Biography of Gordon Undy
I have been photographing since the age of 11 years (in 1951 for the sake of completeness) when I built my first enlarger from an old Ensign camera my father used during World War II. The chassis was wood and…
