I still remember the very first time I shot a piece of instant film. I was at a friend's birthday party, and someone handed me this incredibly clunky, retro-looking Polaroid 600 . I framed up a shot of everyone acting goofy, pressed down on that heavy rubber shutter button, and listened to the loud...

If you spend any time scrolling through Instagram or TikTok these days, you have probably noticed a massive visual shift. The ultra-crisp, perfectly balanced, highly edited photos of the late 2010s are disappearing. Instead, our feeds are suddenly flooded with blurry, flash-lit, highly nostalgic photos that look like they were pulled straight from a...

When I first got into film photography, I was completely obsessed with color. Give me all the warm Kodak Gold sunsets and those moody Portra greens. Black and white felt a little intimidating at first. It seemed maybe a bit too "artsy" or old-fashioned for the casual street scenes and portraits I wanted to...

There is something incredibly special about shooting portraits with a chunk of metal and glass that is twice as old as you are. Modern lenses are amazing, don't get me wrong. If you want edge-to-edge clinical sharpness and autofocus that tracks an eyeball racing at fifty miles an hour, modern glass is the way...

I still remember my first big backpacking trip through southern Europe a few years ago. I thought it would be a brilliant idea to pack a massive medium format camera, a heavy 35mm SLR, three interchangeable lenses, and a brick of film. I had visions of setting up a tripod on cobblestone streets at...