The Lensless and Lo-Fi Podcast

Andrew Bartram
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It’s all about pinhole, toy cameras and anything remotely lo-fi. Conversations about ideas, motivations with some gear talk thrown in for good measure.

  1. FEB 10

    Show 18 - Pinhole & Music with Monika Braaksma

    Although a recent film and pinhole convert Monika has surely embraced it with a lovely eye for composition. We look forward to seeing more of her work in the Lensless and Lo-Fi Podcast Facebook Group.

    1h 17m

  2. 12/05/2025

    Show 17 - The Chroma "Click" - a perfect Christmas gift....

    The lovely Steve Lloyd of Chroma Camera has launched a new full and half frame camera based aeound a two element lens designed by the equally lovely Jason Lane - here all about it here.

    55 min

  3. 12/03/2025

    Show 16 - A year of Lo-Fi with Dave Wenham

    Dave joins us to chat about his year long focus on Holga Photography which you can read about in his blog "Daves Place". In 2026 he and a few friends en=mbark on a similar challenge using pinhole cameras. We talk about ideas, techinque, favourate developers, pano photograaphy and more.

    1h 13m

  4. 11/22/2025

    Show 15 - Holga Week Pinhole shortlist and winners

    You can view all the images that John and Andrew speak about here https://holgaweek.com/2025/?cat=Pinhole We narrowed our shortlist to 6 images and from there chose the winner and so called honorable mention(s) - we chose two as we couldnt agree on one. Shortlisted were: "30 minutes of my afternoon" by Kaz Handley "Frantic" by Lisa Tang Liu (Honorable mention) "Edge of the Abyss" by Elizabeth Rangel (Winner) "Maple Syrup" by Daniel Rock "The Lost City" by Jonathan Boarini "Self Portrait in Arles" by Diana Olifirova (Honorable mention)

    28 min

  5. 11/04/2025

    Show 14 - Mostly Luck with Lorraine Healy

    You can listen to Lorraine in show 14 and 100 of the old Lensless Podcast, but here on the new platform we catch up with Lorraine, last year's Holga Week winner for the pinhole category. Colour in photography, Lomo's new MCA, the LCA Wide, 120 LCA, new Lucky film, Lorraine's poetry and more.....

    1h 28m

  6. 10/14/2025

    Show 13 - A Camera a day......With Tony Kemplen

    Andrew met Tony back in 2012 at the second of the FPP London meetups so it's wonderful to finally get back in touch for this brief chat, to be honest we could have gone on for hours as is the case with many of our guests. Tony has a monthly column in the Amateur Photographer and guesses he has well over 500 cameras, many lofi and cheap. You can find Tony on Instagram under his name and PhoTony on the Flickr....

    1h 10m

  7. 09/11/2025

    Show 12 - Sniffing Polaroids with Astro Beck (part 1)

    Becky Ramotowski (aka Astro Beck) joins John and Andrew for what has turned into a two part show. Becky took time out of her road trip for this recording and at about 30mins in we lost her - so once she's back home we will re connect and continue the conversation. Topics for this show included The serendipity of double exposures Looking at images Photo books, Americana and Stephen Shore

    31 min

  8. 08/20/2025

    Show 11 - Thomas (Obscura Craft) Mead

    Andrew and John are joined by creator and editor of the excellent publication Obscura Craft Magazine Thomad Mead. We chat about his background, his analogue photography passion and how he came to realise this monthly publication.

    1h 5m
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It’s all about pinhole, toy cameras and anything remotely lo-fi. Conversations about ideas, motivations with some gear talk thrown in for good measure.

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