Film photography is back with a bang,
and whether you're returning to the
genre after switching to digital, or
you've just discovered this amazing
medium, there's never been a more
compelling argument for going
analogue with your photography.
In a world where we are bombarded with visual imagery,
making your photos stand out from the crowd is getting
harder by the day, but film will give you that edge - and let you
discover a whole new way of shooting in the process.
In this in-depth and inspirational guide, photography journalist
Ben Hawkins, and pro photographer Liza Kanaeva-Hunsicker
reveal the techniques, tips and secrets for success when
shooting film.
- Learn to shoot on film, from the essential basics
to advanced techniques
- Make the right choices with an in-depth guide to
buying second-hand cameras
- Master the language of film with jargon-free
guides to all the vital processes
- Be inspired by advice from a top pro who shoots
on film
- Discover the amazing imagery of the new school
of analogue photographers
Ben Hawkins
Ben Hawkins is an award-
winning writer and journalist
specializing in photography
and creative media. He was
the group editor of Practical
Photography magazine, 2013-20,
and regularly contributes to
magazines including Amateur
Photographer and Outdoor
Photography. As a child, he
used to 'assist' his dad in the
family darkroom and developed
a fascination with film and
analogue technology. He has
since interviewed some of
the world's most revered film
photographers, including
Albert Watson, David Bailey
and Bob Carlos Clarke. His
signed original Carlos Clarke
print is one of his most prized
possessions.
Liza Kanaeva-Hunsicker
Liza Kanaeva-Hunsicker is a fine
art and fashion photographer
from Moscow, now based in
New York City. She discovered
her love for photography while
documenting family travels
when she was growing up.
Liza studied Art at university
in California and Paris and
subsequently moved to NYC,
where she decided to pursue
photography professionally.
After a few years of assisting,
she ventured out on her own.
Liza has been internationally
exhibited and regularly
contributes to Vogue Italia
among other publications.
While she still occasionally
shoots digital, analogue is at the
heart of her creative practice
Empty storefronts dot the downtown, while massive brick tobacco warehouses stretch the length of city blocks—abandoned and awaiting creative reuse. Wilson, North Carolina, feels frozen in the 1970s. Invited by the Eye on Main Street festival, photographer Cedric Roux made several trips to this enigmatic town. For a photographer used to capturing the vibrant energy of New York City streets—his first book, My Wonderland (now sold out), vividly chronicled the bustling metropolis—his initial encounter with Wilson was a profound shock.
Expecting a town in the midst of a vibrant renaissance, Roux wandered Wilson daily, exploring its diverse areas: downtown, affluent suburbs, and struggling neighborhoods. On either side of the railroad tracks that symbolically and socially divide the city, he sought a light that might suggest an emerging revival..
In his latest book, Before Rebirth, Roux captures this sense of disconnection, using his lens to explore a promise not yet realized. With a population of just 47,000, Wilson is a far cry from Manhattan’s 1.5 million. Used to the dense human energy that fuels his photographic style, Roux found himself reimagining his approach. His work took on a more stripped-down, documentary aesthetic, yet it remains deeply rooted in place and retains the distinctive palette and framing that define his vision..
In collaboration with artistic director Jean-Matthieu Gautier, Roux drew from his imagination and visual archives to craft a narrative that stays true to his photographic roots while stepping far beyond his usual realm.
From the publisher: San Fernando Valley is where John Divola was born and raised, and it served as both backdrop and subject for his earliest, serious photographic explorations, made during the early 1970s. This previously unpublished body of work shows “the Valley” through the eyes of a young photographer who would soon become an internationally-recognized artist with the exhibition and publication of his much more conceptual “Zuma” series. The black and white photographs in “San Fernando Valley” comprise a series of subject groupings which, pulled together, show early manifestations of the deadpan humor and the ability to capture everyday scenes wrapped in loneliness, for which Divola is now well-known. The book is also, and not incidentally, a fascinating record of a quintessentially 1970s Los Angeles culture. John Divola’s work is the subject of numerous books and catalogues. Widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia, Divola’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of many public and private institutions, including those of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet (Monacelli, 2021), photographer Cig Harvey continues her personal study of sensory experience, focusing on the ephemeral nature of light, pigment, and vision. Her latest photographs are lush tableaux of her signature subjects – flora, cakes, domestic interiors, and the human figure in landscape – accompanied by prose vignettes on the science and art of color, written in her vibrant, intimate style. Featuring an afterword by award-winning novelist and poet Ocean Vuong, Emerald Drifters is a catalogue of pleasures and heartbreaks, and ‘an urgent call to live.’
Born in Berlin in 1920, Helmut Newton trained as a teenager with legendary photographer Yva, following her lead into the enticing pastures of fashion, portraiture and nudes. Forced to flee the Nazis aged only 18, Newton never left Berlin behind. After his career exploded in Paris in the 1960s, he returned regularly to shoot for magazines like Constanze, Adam, Vogue, Condé Nast's Traveler, ZEITmagazin, Männer Vogue, Max and the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin as well as his own magazine Helmut Newton’s Illustrated.
In 1979, the newly relaunched German Vogue commissioned him to retrace the footsteps of his youth to capture the fashion moment. The resulting portfolio, Berlin, Berlin!, inspired the title of the exhibition which celebrates 20 years of the Helmut Newton Foundation.
This collection includes Newton’s most iconic Berlin images, as well as many unknown shots from the 1930s to the 2000s: nightcrawlers in uber-cool clubs and restaurants, nude portraits in the boarding houses he knew from his youth, and the Berlin film scene, featuring Hanna Schygulla and Wim Wenders at the Berlin Wall, John Malkovich and David Bowie.
In October 2003, only months before his death, Newton moved large parts of his archive to his new foundation, housed in the Museum of Photography beside the Zoologischer Garten station―the very station from which he fled Berlin in the winter of 1938. This publication thus closes a circle in the story of his extraordinary life and work.
