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I truly believe that I can capture the atmosphere of the surroundings by taking photographs with Film. This is one of the reasons why I became attracted to film cameras.
It might be just  the dynamic range in comparison with digital.
Photographs taken by film cameras delicately show rich gradation, life-like texture, and authentic warmth which can hardly be produced by digital cameras.


My recent theme is to capture the Air...the atmosphere which exists among the person and the scenery. It's because I believe that, in a broad sense, the people consists in-among every single details of the landscape like aether, and I would like to express this aether through photography. The most effective way to convey "the existing air" (or atmosphere) is the combination of medium-format camera and film. This is my style at this point in time.


By Yuichiro Miyano (Japan) ©2011






Yuichiro Miyano (1974) lives and works in Tokio, Japan

Camera's used:
Rollei SL66, Planar 80mm f2.8
Hasselblad 501C, Planar 80mm f2.8


Yuichiro Miyano on Flickr

"Urban Chickens" is a project I recently started, detailing the symbiotic dynamics of urban-dwelling chickens and their owners. The subculture of raising chickens in urban environments has intrigued me for a couple of years. My interest is in the exploration of the reasoning, benefits and downfalls that raising chickens has on different social classes. Thus far, I have documented 12 subjects that range from child to adult and from families to couples and singles.

Owners of these city chickens have different reasons for caring for these once farm-bound animals. Some want the eggs they produce. Some use them to till and fertilize the ground in hopes of using the soil for farming. While others use the chickens as a learning experience for their children. Whatever the need, there is a common seam -- the love of chickens. This is a thread that is wrapped just as tightly around owners who use the chickens as work horses as those who use them as a developmental tool. Each owner, with chicken firmly in hand, says that the chickens, their chickens, are being treated better than they would if they were raised in a corporate farm.

These owners have given me better knowledge into the culture of "local." It seems that as this world becomes more connected and the ability to travel vast distances is cut into shorter amounts of time, the desire to depend on the local economy, instead the global, grows. Hopefully the idea of raising chickens in urban environments breeds new ideas on how local economies should develop and sustain themselves.

Nick Pironio (1982) is a fine art documentary photographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Before working in North Carolina, he worked as a photographer at the Hanover Evening Sun, The Monroe Evening News and the Fayetteville Observer. After his time at the Observer, Nick had a short stint as the photographer for the John Edwards for President Campaign. Since then Nick has worked on projects such as documenting a developing denim company, Raleigh Denim and a series of Urban Chicken portraits.


by: Nick Pironio (USA) ©2011









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by Colin Clarke ©2011

Colin Clarke is an Australian who lives in South Carolina in the United States.  He has been passionate about photography in its many guises for over 50 years, and remains devoted to the use of film and the darkroom process. He continues to use simple classical equipment to make his exposures.  He is not bound to any format, and enjoys using several analog cameras - from pinhole boxes to 4x5 field cameras.

Colin's work spans many subjects including architecture, landscapes with an emphasis on trees, and botanicals.  He strives to find and record that special light which creates a peaceful harmony in the environment.  Mostly Colin works in monochrome, processing in his own darkroom, using standard and alternative methods for development and printing.

Although he was influenced in his early years by many of the great photographers of the first half of the 20th century - Adams, Strand, Weston, Steichen, Smith, White and several others - Colin believes that Barry Thornton said it best about photographers, and their quest for good light and form: "As photographers we should be peculiarly sensitive to the quality of light.  Often, the great picture comes not from the subject itself, but from what unusual light makes it into."


 
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"I take a camera wherever I go, it helps me to find the interesting
fragments in everyday life. I look out for pleasing little snippets,
and with a little bit of luck, there is something in an image when I
draw the neg from the tank.

I first became interested in photography in 2008, and soon took to the
mean streets of Sydney with my pockets stuffed with Tri X. Currently
based in Brisbane, my current project is simply to work out what makes
this city tick".

By: Geoff Roberts (Australia)



Leicaflex, Leica M6, Tri-x and Efke 25













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