Ellen Goodman is a photographer from St. Louis, Missouri who is passionate about film. She is fascinated by live chemical reactions, the energy of things and connections therein. Her photography typically reflects what she's most passionate about. Since the birth of her daughter, she has focused primarily on portrait and documentary style work.
All B&W shots are developed and by printed by hand in her darkroom. Her camera collection includes: Hasselblad 500 C/M, Pentax 67II, Mamiya C220, Polaroid SX-70, various 35mm cameras and her old Kodak Instamatic from childhood.
Ellen is very active with the Film Shooters Collective and spearheaded the FSC's first group exhibition that took place in August of 2016 at the Kranzberg Art Gallery in St. Louis, MO.
See more from Ellen on her website: www.thefeeloffilm.com Twitter: @thefeeloffilm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellengoodman/
Todd Wagner
I find photography awakens the inner adventurer in all of us. Whether it’s traveling to new places to find landscapes or people to photograph or experimenting with cameras and film stock, there’s always something new to discover and something else to learn. Photography gives us a new way of seeing everything we encounter and film is the perfect medium on which to capture it.
Growing up in Southern California, but having lived all over the world, adventure was never in short supply. Now based back in Los Angeles, my next adventures are only as far away as my camera and film.
Anthony Klimas
I am an avid hobbyist who returned to my film roots in the last few years. While my day job as an executive in a large professional services firm keeps me busy and on often on the road to many places around the world, it is my love and passion for film photography that defines who I am. While I previously worked part time as a photojournalist covering sports and local events, these days my focus is mainly on travel and street photography and really whatever catches my eye. I love to collect old cameras and enjoy using them every chance I get. I love the entire creative process from visualizing the shot to pulling my negatives out of the tank and I’m glad to be associated with such a great group of people who are equally dedicated to film photography. Here are a few of my recent film favorites.
Cameron Kline
Southern California photographer, Cameron Kline, is a full-time editorial and portrait photographer currently serving international clients from his office in San Diego as well as the founder of the Film Shooters Collective. During his free time Cameron enjoys ranting about film, making margaritas, and enjoying incredible light.
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Colton Allen
Colton Allen grew up in rural Canada, and now lives in Talent, Oregon. In 2008, he was diagnosed with ALS, and has since lost most of his motor skills, including his ability to walk, and has been primarily confined to a power chair since 2012. Allen is a self-taught photographer, and began taking photos shortly before being diagnosed with ALS in 2008.
Though Allen started out using a digital SLR, it wasn’t long before he embraced the beauty of film. Using mostly medium format cameras, Allen’s work is now nearly 100% film based.
Inspired by the color photography of Steven Shore and William Eggleston, Allen strives to find simple beauty, in everyday life, but from a unique perspective.
See more film photography from Colton Allen on Flickr or on his website: http://www.coltonallen.com/
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Richard Lambert
My name is Richard PJ Lambert and I'm from Birmingham, England.
I think of photography as being akin to music. Growing up listening to bands like Pavement and Beck, I found myself singing along to the surreal lyrics and creating my own meanings. Whilst the words seemed weird and oblique, they could still be affecting - inviting you into their own self contained worlds
I’m interested in pictures that work the same way, that maybe ask more questions than they answer. I take a camera everywhere, so when strange things happen in everyday life I take a picture. I find the unusual beautiful. Collecting moments like this, snapshots can work like non sequiturs, leaving connections to be deciphered by the viewer.
I use film because the mechanics of making a picture are transparent and easy to understand. I don’t think choice of medium can determine the quality of a photograph, but for me the analogue process feels more spontaneous, creative and fun. I couldn’t get the same results without it.
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Brian Richman
I have been taking photographs since the age ten using 120 format film cameras and then in my 20's got into 35mm film. As I now work my way through my fifth decade I am ever more aware of just how little I like the results of most digital photography, and am now trying more and more to bring the qualities of film to my photography.
Born in London, England in the same part of town as Don McCullin the photographer who is famous for having his Nikon F take a bullet from an AK47 and save his life in the Vietnam war, I now call North Texas my home.
My approach is both deliberate and opportunistic. Slow and considered as well as fast and in the moment. This complete contrast results in images that span many genres and styles: I never know when or what might happen next, it's why I always have a camera with me and why this art never ceases to amaze and astound me.
I am currently TRYING to make a web site but it keeps changing and evolving, so I have no idea what new things will be there from one week to the next.
See more from film photographer Brian Richman at his website.
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Lucy Wainwright
Lucy Wainwright lives in Derbyshire in the UK where she is an artist and trainee art therapist who works creatively with terminally ill people and their families. She believes powerfully in the potential of art to help us live better, more conscious lives, to make deeper, more real connections with other people, and to become fully intimate with our own true minds and hearts. She hand builds and smoke fires ceramics and takes a very large number of photographs.
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