Interview: Aliki Braine - On Making vs. Taking
London based artist, Aliki Braine, makes images that highlight the materiality of analog photography. By cutting up, folding, stickering and punching holes in negatives, she asks her viewers to slow down and reconsider what a photograph is and reminds of photography’s roots as something to be held and revered as on object.
Interview: Ed Kashi - “Abandoned Moments”
With the release of Ed Kashi's latest monograph, “Abandoned Moments,” we get the chance to look over a career-spanning retrospective of a photographer's work and style, and along with it, a specific aesthetic found within the final images chosen for this incredible book. Not simply a book review–this is an interview with one of the country’s finest photojournalists.
Polaroid Week - Spring 2022: Our Top 20 Favorites!
Polaroid Week is a bi-annual celebration of instant film that allows lovers of the medium to share their newly created instant works across the internet! See our top selections from this season now!
Analog Forever Magazine Edition 6 Artist Announcement!
Analog Forever Magazine Edition 6 includes interviews with Michael Massaia, Deborah Parkin, Amanda Marchand, and Amy Sue Greenleaf, accompanied by features of Leila Ali, Renée Jacobs, Christian K. Lee, Loren Nelson, Graciana Piaggio, and Manon Weiser.
NSFW | Featured Photographer: La Fille Renne - “Reclaiming Our Bodies: Systemic, Gynecological, and Obstetric Violence Towards Our Sexes in the Framework of Health”
La Fille Renne––non-binary photographer and co-director of feminist media, Polysème Magazine––gives insight to their series, Reclaiming Our Bodies: Systemic, Gynecological, and Obstetric Violence Towards Our Sexes in the Framework of Health, a project that brings awareness of gynecological and obstetrical violence.
Featured Photographer: Jamie Swick - “Instant Transcendence”
Jamie Swick’s environmental portraits of the Pacific Northwest produce a distinct stillness that is undeniable. Her picturesque landscapes suggest a new era of environmentalism that isn’t fought by tying yourself to a tree, but by walking among them.
Book Review: "Dairy Character" by Odette England
“Dairy Character” is a loose chronicle of Odette England’s experience growing up on a dairy farm in southern Australia. Combining recent photographs, family snapshots, archival images, and short stories, England examines the male-dominant rural community in which she was raised. Please read our latest online review of this beautiful book at Analog Forever Magazine.
Featured Photographer: Luca Tombolini - "Vistas Paradossales”
Luca Tombolini’s series Vistas artistically explores the scientific idea of Space, Time, and their relativity by asking viewers to consider the perception of their via place in the universe via the combination of long and multiple exposure landscapes and cameraless microscapes made of color drops in solvents.
Featured Photographer: Liz Albert - "Family Fictions”
Liz Albert’s series, Family Fictions, take us on a journey back in time to explore family and social dynamics in the 50s and 60s through photographic slides that she has found, purchased, and combined into diptychs.
Featured Photographer: Nettie Edwards - "Grave Goods"
Nettie Edwards uses the ephemeral photographic processes of anthotype and chlorophyll printing to create personal meditations on the transitory nature of existence. By embracing processes destined to degrade she confronts the ideas of loss, grief, and mortality.
Featured Photographer: Vincent Ricardel - "The Way Back"
Vincent Ricardel’s series “The Way Back” was created with a Hasselblad 500 CM camera and 19+-year-old Kodak Black and White Verichrome Pan film. His series masterfully challenges the notion that there are no frontiers left in the American West.
Featured Photographer: Jan Cook - "Fugue: A Dreamlike State"
What is chromoskedasic painting, you ask? Photographer, Jan Cook, has the explanation of this lesser-known process and the intention behind its use in her incredible body of work, “Fugue: A Dreamlike State.” A combination of printing and painting techniques like this is sure to lure you into this deeply mysterious work.
Book Review: "Reserved Mr. Memory" by Patrick Murphy
If vintage documentary photography is even a passing fancy in your love of great photography, you would do well to investigate “Reserved Mr. Memory,” a trip back through time in the American South, from photographer Patrick Murphy. Read our informative book review now!
Twenty Women Film Photographers You Need to Know in 2022!
Since its advent, photography has been a boy's club, and women have stood out as rebels and heroes for infiltrating the clubhouse. It's now 2022, and we are pleased to help you discover 20 established and emerging women photographers that deserve recognition as we enter a new era of photographic diversity.
Featured Photographer: David Scheinbaum - “ENSŌ”
Flashback to the Spring of 2020 — a time of the unknown, and David Scheinbaum’s latest work was born. A one-year cameraless exploration of the ENSŌ – a journey, traveling back to the essence of photography, light, and chemistry. Explore more with our article on this fascinating photographer and his latest works.
Analog Forever Magazine’s Top 40 Analog Photographs of 2021
These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand out must-see images produced in 2021. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!
Book Review: “Anderswo/Elsewhere” by Petra Barth
If you are looking to get lost in travels and mysteries, are a fan of stunning black and white photography, and want it all wrapped up in a neatly designed package, you could not go wrong with Petra Barth's gorgeous Anderswo/Elsewhere, from the consistently outstanding Schilt Publishing. Read our review now!
Book Review: Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium With The Contemporary Printing-Out Proceess
Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process describes the mechanisms and chemistry of platinum/palladium printing in safe and practical ways.
Valley of the Sun: The Mystical, Magical Self-Portraits of Clare Marie Bailey
Inspired by 1960s B movies and counterculture, the works of Ellen Rogers, and the surreal landscape of the seaside Welsh town where she lives and works, Clare Marie Bailey’s Polaroid self-portraits blur the lines between fantasy and reality.
Interview: Camille Valbusa - “Self-Portraits Tell Her Story”
Camille Valbusa’s self-portraits are critical identity studies that research artistic practices of healing from trauma. Read our latest interview where she dives into the motivations of her photography, talks about a current book project, and how shooting film plays into her art-making practice.