I have just spent some excess US$ in my PayPal account at LensWork: a one year magazine subscription, the On Being a Photographer book I wanted to read for a long time, and a print by Brooks Jensen. I have been listening to his podcast for quite a while now, and while I don’t always agree, it makes some good listening and provides food for thought.... 

I really enjoyed looking through this photo book. From what I understand, the photos are about the town Tagawa which used to be a major centre of coal mining and cement production in Japan. What’s interesting is that while the photographs are documentary, the style is clearly that of street photography, which illustrates how much – or better... 

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lockers at dusk, by Dirk Rösler. 1s at f16 on Polaroid 79 I don’t know why I keep shooting large format. It is cumbersome, heavy, slow, expensive, prone to error... 

If you like flatpack furniture and photography, you may be interested in this DIY large format camera that has just come out. Unfortunately nothing on the web yet, but I learned about it in an ad and review article in B&W Photography magazine. At around £150 not a bad deal (no lens, of course), but some tools and glue etc required to put it together.... 

Fortia SP ultra-strong colour reversal film has always been advertised as a limited edition film and stocks have finally run out. We hope you managed to try one of those out. Let’s see if there will be another re-run or even a permanent film. To the disappointment of many, Konica-Minolta has recently withdrawn from the photography business. This...