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“I like to see myself as a storyteller.  Photography happens to be the way I tell stories.  I see the world in a certain way and try to create visual images to take viewers on a journey.  


I gravitate towards emotional, ethereal and dream-like imagery and I use cameras like pinholes and lenses like the Aero Ektar 178mm as tools to create the look and feel I strive for”.


 


Gordon’s links


http://www.gordonszetophotography.com/


 


https://www.instagram.com/bokchoyboy/


 


 


 


Things we chatted about on the show:


 


Photographers who have had an influence on Gordon’s work or who he has admired……or maybe random links from Erik.


 


Gordon has made some wonderful night work, so has another photographer.


Todd Hido - http://www.toddhido.com


 


Gordon Parks - https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/


 


Susan Burnstine - http://www.susanburnstine.com/


 


Keith Carter - https://www.keithcarterphotographs.com/


 


Alexi Titarenko - http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/


 


 


Portraits…..plain environmental, isolated…..two different approaches.


Richard Avedon - https://www.avedonfoundation.org/


Jane Brown - https://photogpedia.com/jane-bown/


 


John Harding, City College - https://johnhardingphoto.net/


 


One camera, one lens, standard development………or not?


John Blakemore - https://www.johnblakemore.co.uk/


 


We discussed the topic of story telling with pictures and image sequencing.


Niniane Kelly - https://www.analogforevermagazine.com/niniane-kelley


Ann Jastrab - https://photography.org/staff/


 


 


81b’s photo collective - http://www.81bees.com/ ter


 


 


LFPP links -


 


https://largeformatphotographypodcast.podbean.com/


 


ko-fi.com/largeformatphotographypodcast


 


You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group


https://www.facebook.com/groups/2296599290564807/


 


And now our Flikr group curated by Colin Devroe


https://www.flickr.com/groups/lfpp/


 


Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –


https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper


 


Or from Simon –


https://twitter.com/simonfor


 


Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast


largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com


 


Podcast Hosts Social Media presence


 


Simon Forster


www.classiclensespodcast.com


 


www.simonforsterphotographic.co.uk


 


https://stores.ebay.co.uk/itsfozzyphotography


 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/125323761@N07/


 


https://www.facebook.com/SimonForsterPhotographic/


 


https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/


 


https://twitter.com/SimonFor


 


Andrew Bartram


https://anchor.fm/thelenslesspodcast


 


https://andrewbartram.wordpress.com


 


https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper


 


https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper_pinholes


 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/warboyssnapper/


 


https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper


 


Erik Mathy


A not updated website.


https://www.erikmathy.com/about


 


IG probably best for all things including rabbits.


https://www.instagram.com/erikhmathy/?hl=en


 


The East Bay Photo Collective


https://www.ebpco.org/


 


 


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#57 Sandy King


Louisiana born and bred, lover and teacher of Spanish literature, citizen of the world, fine art printer, abstract landscape photographer…..oh and did I mention he also loved staining developers so much that he developed his own?


 


I first became aware of Sandy King as, like many others, I began investigating Pyro staining developers. There is much, much more to Sandy than his work developing PyrocatHD and today we scratch away at the surface.


 


 


Sandy’s links


http://www.sandykingphotography.com/


 


 


Things we chatted about on the show:


As we are chatting I can see Erik Mathy moving his fingers over his keyboard as he sends links to us all via our messenger chat . He seems to be able to pick up on things the guest is saying, do the Google research and send the links over and still keep track of the conversation....clearly he isn’t a proper male!


 


http://meetingbenches.com/2020/03/the-perfect-past-jose-ortiz-echague-aesthetics-and-photographic-techniques-of-pictorialism-gum-bichromate-and-coal/?fbclid=IwAR1k9jt-bQqVNegLAwSzeC2BxdQAffWcToBAG_d14ipnyJk4wrYfOs9WGrE


 


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1144285.The_Keepers_of_Light_A_History_Working_Guide_to_Early_Photographic_Processes?fbclid=IwAR0PklWhjdNfcEg1xoVtEHpBJVYUEYVvBlMS2O5FJ1XiJ3hO57LpUp9tlXM


 


https://groups.io/g/carbon?fbclid=IwAR2deRdt4MKE_ANQBbyE6k2u3Qp4TtCiR2H4E4sIYZbYG8a8FoLEL7QbSB4


 


https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/?fbclid=IwAR0x1u-gqvqZ2rDcR5KLD7p7SXVh721RdV8LNy0SzxEaCjniRfdp29PXXd4


 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Golden_Age_theatre?fbclid=IwAR2PPay1VXxeem_N5CiYQOw3IJG427SNqdE_fMIVdltX9Nb9AGfq2-f26LY


 


Sandy mentioned Sam Wang a few times – I hope I have the correct person here – either way it’s pretty interesting.


https://www.alternativephotography.com/sam-wang-review/


 


Phil Davis, author of Beyond The Zone System is a book that I have but despite several attempts remains impenetrable to me. I was, therefore pleased that even Sandy struggled with it…..at least on the first read.


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1751148.Beyond_the_Zone_System?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=tmCGIQZMnD&rank=1


 


Of course the much mentioned article by Sandy on Pyro developers which is available from his website.


http://www.sandykingphotography.com/resources/technical-writing/pyro-staining-developers


 


Also.


http://www.sandykingphotography.com/resources/technical-writing/notes-on-pictorialism


 


And PyrocatHD formula and notes from Unblinking Eye.


https://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Pyrocat/pyrocat.html


 


 


LFPP links -


 


https://largeformatphotographypodcast.podbean.com/


 


ko-fi.com/largeformatphotographypodcast


 


You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group


https://www.facebook.com/groups/2296599290564807/


 


And now our Flikr group curated by Colin Devroe


https://www.flickr.com/groups/lfpp/


 


Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –


https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper


 


Or from Simon –


https://twitter.com/simonfor


 


Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast


largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com


 


Podcast Hosts Social Media presence


 


Simon Forster


www.classiclensespodcast.com


 


www.simonforsterphotographic.co.uk


 


https://stores.ebay.co.uk/itsfozzyphotography


 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/125323761@N07/


 


https://www.facebook.com/SimonForsterPhotographic/


 


https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/


 


https://twitter.com/SimonFor


 


Andrew Bartram


https://anchor.fm/thelenslesspodcast


 


https://andrewbartram.wordpress.com


 


https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper


 


https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper_pinholes


 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/warboyssnapper/


 


https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper


 


Erik Mathy


A not updated website.


https://www.erikmathy.com/about


 

#56 Erik & The Tubers


 


Just over twelve months ago, Andrew and Simon were joined by the wonderful Jenny Sampson after being spotted on the front page of the relatively obscure BBC.co.uk website with a striking wet plate image. During an excellent discussion of Jenny's work, we touched upon and fell over Jenny's description of her collaboration with the Rolls & Tubes Collective; a group of photographers taking the inexplicable Covid related toilet roll shortage and recreating some of photography's greatest moments with bog roll.

An excellent body of work was created and now Jenny along with Colleen Mullins, Christy McDonald and Nicole White have a sold out publication and success beyond their wildest dreams.

To catch up the story, we've sent Erik all the way to California to delve deeper into the project and relive the journey.


 


 


The Rolls & Tubes Collective links;


 


Rolls and Tubes


https://www.instagram.com/rolls_and_tubes


 


Colleen Mullins


Colleenmullins.net


https://www.instagram.com/colleen_mullins_photography


 


Christy McDonald


http://www.christymcdonald.net/


https://www.instagram.com/christymphoto


 


Nicole White


nicolewhite.net


https://www.instagram.com/othernicolewhite


 


Jenny Sampson


Jennysampson.com


https://www.instagram.com/jennysampsonphotography/


https://www.instagram.com/jennyruth22/


 


 


 


Links from discussions:


 


Diane Arbus, twins


https://www.instagram.com/p/B-VJiXygMgi


 


Frederich Sommer cut paper piece


https://www.instagram.com/p/B-VARIaAEu5


 


Harry Callahan


https://www.instagram.com/p/CAkzvfiFbDV


 


Josef Koudelka


https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cWJztgbKG


 


Robert Frank


https://www.instagram.com/p/B_NMB13lR9l


 


Christopher Williams


https://www.instagram.com/p/B_pl5nHFUPs


 


David Maisel


https://www.instagram.com/p/B-VWG-ogfdT


 


Ken Rosenthal


https://www.instagram.com/p/B_uwPzhFfYU


 


Alex Soth


https://www.instagram.com/p/B-aLpWvgPnf


 


Anna Atkins


https://www.instagram.com/p/CAQM7z2lFyH


 


Talbot - mid 19th century


https://www.instagram.com/p/B-feGZzgoib


 


Aaron Shirreff


https://www.instagram.com/p/B-hp-9AgCpG


 


Dorothea Lange Hwy 45


https://www.instagram.com/p/CAX9lSjlJ5P


 


 


Philadelphia Photo Fest 2020


https://www.2020photofestival.org


 


 


LFPP links -


 


https://largeformatphotographypodcast.podbean.com/


 


ko-fi.com/largeformatphotographypodcast


 


You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group


https://www.facebook.com/groups/2296599290564807/


 


And now our Flikr group curated by Colin Devroe


https://www.flickr.com/groups/lfpp/


 


Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –


https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper


 


Or from Simon –


https://twitter.com/simonfor


 


Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast


largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com


 


Podcast Hosts Social Media presence


 


Simon Forster


www.classiclensespodcast.com


 


www.simonforsterphotographic.co.uk


 


https://stores.ebay.co.uk/itsfozzyphotography


 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/125323761@N07/


 


https://www.facebook.com/SimonForsterPhotographic/


 


https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/


 


https://twitter.com/SimonFor


 


Andrew Bartram


https://anchor.fm/thelenslesspodcast


 


https://andrewbartram.wordpress.com


 


https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper


 


https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper_pinholes


 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/warboyssnapper/


 


https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper


 


Erik Mathy


A not updated website.


https://www.erikmathy.com/about


 


IG probably best for all things including rabbits.


https://www.instagram.com/erikhmathy/?hl=en


 


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Kelly-Ann Bobb is an analogue freelance photographer based in the twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago.


She has always had a natural inclination towards creativity. After completing medical school, she fell in love with the unending complexities of film photography.


She utilizes photography as a tool of unmasking, telling stories that would not otherwise be told. Revealing as much of herself as the subjects she photographs.


 


Kelly’s links


 


https://www.kellyannbobb.com/


 


https://www.instagram.com/kellyannbobb_photography/


 


 


 


Things we chatted about on the show:


 


We spent a fair part of the time talking about two of Kelly’s projects that have received widespread acclaim.“Home Alone” and “Sacred Bodies and the Divine” – go to Kelly’s IG page to see examples.


 


https://www.tokyofotoawards.jp/winners/social/2020/Sacred-Bodies-1/


 


https://www.lensculture.com/search/projects?q=kelly-ann+bobb


 


The “Home Alone” project was born out of lockdown and explores how we handle solitude – its more than that so listen to the show as Kelly explains it better.


 


Gum Oil printing – Kelly shared her experiences and love for all things alternative print making.


 


Both Kelly and Erik recommend the work of Anna Ostania for all things gum oil.


https://annaostanina.com/?fbclid=IwAR15CjB-AIrjIBK6Rj3BkRAkgEBCA7cukNciL7uprBqtQ1k6kgQ_NpNursE


 


We had a fascinating conversation about how traditional colour film was balances around pale Caucasian skin.


Erik (good old Erik) found an interesting link.


https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/04/16/303721251/light-and-dark-the-racial-biases-that-remain-in-photography?fbclid=IwAR0shj8MYLWYNS5B4tFfFrDE3v2Fwas2XD9GAp1zsq103EgqBKk4TBprMnQ&t=1628581073284


 


And Gordon Parks.


https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/?fbclid=IwAR3Mb8WapxD6ex1FZXgiyJ1q7F6kkcDcpzXRlFu1RJY9PXrA-4qCGjtZMZ0


 


We got talking about photographing in a hospital environment – here are some good books to check out.


https://eugenerichards.com/the-knife-and-gun-club/?fbclid=IwAR2ea5luIXeEeudN0a_Y_POV2IjRozyBYC2HhfeXW8Y_4cgABxHRc6vEX-A


 


https://www.staticage.co.uk/post/all-in-a-day-s-work-by-david-collyer


 


Some other Erik Mathy links.


https://www.instagram.com/joelymanphotography/?fbclid=IwAR2wnegoVISQnMtKdS3p9BBpbV3OQLRYFMslitl6ZAMq8oiNfKSUeapTUos   -  well one to be precise.


 


 


LFPP links -


 


https://largeformatphotographypodcast.podbean.com/


 


ko-fi.com/largeformatphotographypodcast


 


You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group


https://www.facebook.com/groups/2296599290564807/


 


And now our Flikr group curated by Colin Devroe


https://www.flickr.com/groups/lfpp/


 


Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –


https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper


 


Or from Simon –


https://twitter.com/simonfor


 


Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast


largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com


 


Podcast Hosts Social Media presence


 


Simon Forster


www.classiclensespodcast.com


 


www.simonforsterphotographic.co.uk


 


https://stores.ebay.co.uk/itsfozzyphotography


 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/125323761@N07/


 


https://www.facebook.com/SimonForsterPhotographic/


 


https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/


 


https://twitter.com/SimonFor


 


Andrew Bartram


https://anchor.fm/thelenslesspodcast


 


https://andrewbartram.wordpress.com


 


https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper


 


https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper_pinholes


 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/warboyssnapper/


 


https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper


 


Erik Mathy


A not updated website.


https://www.erikmathy.com/about


 


IG probably best for all things including rabbits.


https://www.instagram.com/erikhmathy/?hl=en


 


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Just the three of us this week as we recover from the trip to Dave Shrimpton’s house.


This was meant to be more of an email show but there was really only one we could read out and that was just a brilliant one from Pakistan based visual artist Jahanzeb Haroon.


 


Things we chatted about on the show:


 


Andrew kicked off the discussion with “what we’ve all been up to”. Shamefully but rationally explained, no LF work from him for ages. The darkroom extension has been an all consuming project and with the first paying workshop customer coming in August the pressure has been on to at least get it functional, and it is now.


 


Returning from a holiday in Northumberland Andrew has a number of rolls of fil m to develop including 4 or 5 127 films, some HP5 and a roll of expired Astia that he exposed in his Toyo 45a with the 6x17 back. The question goes begging “do we or should we take large format gear on a family holiday”?


 


Another reason for not exposing too much LF film recently is the need to nail down rotary processing in his Jobo CPE2 or the new variable speed rotating base recently received from Student Photo Store on ebay.  Settling down to PyrocatHD and ID111+1 will reduce the creative choices, and darkroom is needed to play around.


 


Earlier in the year Mat Marrash posted a video all about determining your own personal film speed and “normal” developing time  using a Stouffer TP45 step wedge, after years of doing this by trial and error Andrew has taken the plunge and ordered a step wedge.


Mat’s video and a link to the Stouffer site below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN-LM1lM8Kg&t=1005s


 


https://stouffer.net/Photo.htm#:~:text=Stouffer%20Craftsmanship%20Transmission%20Projection%20%28TP%29%20Step%20Wedges%20are,concept%20used%20when%20approaching%20the%20art%20of%20photography.


 


Both Erik and Simon have been up to way more exciting things, actually exposing and playing around with LF film and paper.


 


Erik has been deep diving into lens building with Bronica ETRS lenses and more (see Erik’s IG site below).


 


Erik posted into the LFPP Facebook group ongoing work with Faux Orotones with some lovely results.


The Orotone process was made famous by Edward Curtis and more info can be found on line (OK Wikipedia to the rescue) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orotone


 


Erik is looking for a similar effect using gold spray paint and it works really well.


 


Simon has been busy using his Chroma camera both in and out of the studio with some expired velvia and, in the 6 towns studio, some Harman Direct Positive paper. We have a chat about the challenges of using HDP and its limited tonal range (high contrast). The Ilford PDF data sheet and a recent Ilford video presented by Rachel Brewster-Wright are very helpful if you are thinking of using this great paper for the first time.


 


https://www.ilfordphoto.com/harman-direct-positive-paper-sheets


 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFUSiRwfOHs


 


On the subject of film speed testing friend of the show Billy Sanford recently appeared on the Sunny 16 presents show and talked about his experience with a Richard Pickup approach to film speed testing – he actually cited our LFPP interview with Richard as inspiration.


 


https://sunny16presents.podbean.com/e/on-location-the-goldilocks-negative-with-billy-sanford/


 


LFPP listener and FB member Jahenzeb Haroon sent in a lovely email talking all about analogue photography in Pakistan, it’s a great email and do check out Jahenzeb’s work which he produces very much against the odds. We take off our collective hats and not in his direction.


https://www.instagram.com/junk.lab/


 


And this link all about one of Pakistan’s oldest photography practices that is still going.


https://www.globalvillagespace.com/zaidis-photographers-pakistans-majestic-kaliedoscope/?fbclid=IwAR3nBFNa8cvo6sJvdxDykAR0MziXteY0Ep05OiOItZHQ5adntspdyGXhkWM

Simon, Andrew and Yevgeni venture out on their first LFPP outside broadcast. Unfortunately Erik couldn’t get a ticket across the Atlantic so we had to use a naked female shop dummy as an able replacement.


 


After two previous attempts we arrive at the wonderful imaginarium where Dave eats, sleeps and breathes creative photography.


 


For part 2 we are mostly in the darkroom where the magic is revealed and the Tintypes of Dave come out pretty darn well.


What a brilliant day we had and both of us are hooked.


 


 


Things we chatted about on the show:


 


Dave works closely with Jeff Perry who has helped him bring his photographic equipment vision to reality and Andrew will be using his 4x5 back and wetplate insert in pt 2


https://20thcenturycamera.com/


 


Dave goes out of his way to shop locally where he can for his film and chemical supplies.


RK Photographic is a long established high street retailer originally based in Potters bar, North London they recently relocated to Letchworth.


https://www.thedarkroom.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR0N2nk7wCiS0zBWoLhGYFflKGw0iPn6n9TyN07r3B6RbabwrbqjJYsScX0


 


Kevin Lunham operates Wet Plate Supplies from Ramsey (down the road from Andrew) and is a brilliant place for all you may need for wet plate and your alternative photographic process.


http://www.wetplatesupplies.com/?fbclid=IwAR3E7f82xQNxk6VWveNm7ww5UAKVqjwrszku72peWHUJAgSARpjVaUinddA


 


Process Supplies in London – Founded in 1928 PS are one of the oldest photographic supply companies in Great Britain and still run by the Willes family in the same Clerkenwell premises.


https://www.processuk.net/


 


Dave Burnett – the guy that shot the 2012 Olympic Games on a Speed Graphic with an Aero Ektar lens and took the photographs that  led Dave into LF photography.


https://www.davidburnett.com/?fbclid=IwAR2e1cDtTHMzQPA15mwwGG1M5zYWGHdotLb4VkAQPN0TiKYJ_LAi8PdvZlA


 


http://grahamcopekoga.com/?fbclid=IwAR2XHzGNnDtrW_JEUh7xia6BZyxTcMQTc88IihFD0BxJ1eFzOLAGjxrYh0A


 


Dollies Little Follies make accessories and home décor with very much a quirky twist – perfect for Dave as he brings his vision into reality.


Dollie'slittlefolies (@BlackRoseCamden) / Twitter


 


 


Dave’s links


https://www.instagram.com/dave_shrimpton/


 


https://daveshrimpton.co.uk


 


 


 


LFPP links -


 


https://largeformatphotographypodcast.podbean.com/


 


ko-fi.com/largeformatphotographypodcast


 


You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group


https://www.facebook.com/groups/2296599290564807/


 


And now our Flikr group curated by Colin Devroe


https://www.flickr.com/groups/lfpp/


 


Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –


https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper


 


Or from Simon –


https://twitter.com/simonfor


 


Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast


largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com


 


Podcast Hosts Social Media presence


 


Simon Forster


www.classiclensespodcast.com


 


www.simonforsterphotographic.co.uk


 


https://stores.ebay.co.uk/itsfozzyphotography


 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/125323761@N07/


 


https://www.facebook.com/SimonForsterPhotographic/


 


https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/


 


https://twitter.com/SimonFor


 


Andrew Bartram


https://anchor.fm/thelenslesspodcast


 


https://andrewbartram.wordpress.com


 


https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper


 


https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper_pinholes


 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/warboyssnapper/


 


https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper


 


Erik Mathy


A not updated website.


https://www.erikmathy.com/about


 


IG probably best for all things including rabbits.


https://www.instagram.com/erikhmathy/?hl=en


 


Stay Safe