SARAH TAFT

Sarah Taft grew up in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York, where her love of history and making images began. The Hudson Valley has many historic buildings often in various stages of decay which inspired Sarah to pick up her mother’s Pentax camera at an early age. She sees images as a way of preserving the past and present, often making her sisters model for her amongst the decaying landscape.  Sarah’s true love came when she was introduced to large format at Blue Moon Camera and Machine in Portland, Oregon, where she has worked for the last four years. You can often find her in her darkroom, printing for sanity or maybe its insanity; in any case there is usually sparkling wine involved. Sarah and her fiancé Joshua live with their fur babies, Emmet and Lola in North Portland. 

You can see more of Sarah's work on her website. 

Lisa Toboz

Lisa Toboz earned her MFA in Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and is a copy editor for TABLE magazine. Her instant film work can be found in various publications including Impossible Magazine, Optiko, Hylas, and as a featured artist in She Shoots Film: Self Portraits. Her work explores self-portraiture and the forgotten landscapes in and around the rust-belt region, primarily through integral film. She has exhibited internationally, and is a member of the 12.12 Project, an instant-film artists’ collective that interprets monthly themes through analog techniques. She currently lives in Dormont, a trolley-line town outside of Pittsburgh, with her husband, artist Jeff Schreckengost.

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Michael Rennie

At first I just took pictures, I wasn’t really a photographer; I was a skateboarder, a cyclist, a snowboarder, a climber, a sailor, a husband, a father, an engineer but not a photographer. My photographs were average despite using a camera on a daily basis.

Enter the battered, £12 Minolta 7000i SLR and a few rolls of film. This clunker showed me just how little I knew about how to take a picture and slowed me down enough to start actually learning. I started from the basics and taught myself photography, this was four years ago and today my obsession with film photography is stronger than ever.

I share articles, projects and competitions (both film and digital) on my blog at www.badbeaglephotography.com.

My day to day adventures can be seen on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/badbeaglephotography and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Badbeaglephotography. 

I shoot everything from half frame to large format and I’m keen to collaborate with any other film geeks at home (Scotland) or worldwide, please get in touch! 

Daniel Marinelli

My work is a bit of a compromise between landscape and street photography. I am more of an anthropologist than a photographer, despite the fact that you rarely see a person in any of my pictures, traces of humanity are omnipresent. The fingerprints society leaves behind, provide evidence of it’s impact. I am especially interested in the roughly defined line between nature and civilization, as well as man’s attempts to harness it’s beauty. I am also a bit of an archivist. Southern California had seen more development in the last 100 years than anywhere else in America. The world of my childhood is rapidly eroding and my vision of San Diego is altered on a daily basis. As people bring different values, ideas and visions to the region, they physically change the landscape. I enjoy documenting the change and taking little snippets with me. I almost always shoot from a sidewalk at eye level with a 35-50mm lens to closely mimic the human experience. I often use half frame cameras to document my surroundings and founded the Half Frame Club in summer of 2016. 

Chris Tennyson

Chris Tennyson is a Southern California based photographer who specializes in documenting rural towns. He finds most of his subjects in the American midwest.

Chris began his photographic journey at 14 and has continued for over 20 years. Not wanting to limit himself to one type of camera, he uses everything from 35mm to 8x10, pinhole to Polaroid. When not traveling in the midwest, Chris likes experimenting with different photographic arts. Past experiments have included restoring and shooting a Glossick cuban polaroid camera and shooting expired 8x10 Polaroid portraits. He is currently modifying a WWII era aerial reconnaissance lens to work on his 4x5 camera. 

 

Clarence Dosdos

I am Clarence Dosdos, 42 years old. I am an Architect by profession. I started taking Photography seriously on 2008, taking various subject from Landscapes, architectures, portraits and any other that are trending at that time and even trending now.

Last year I took a complete turn and choose Street Photography as a genre to follow...at least for now. Knowing that photography styles are evolving and innovations so as variations are keep coming up.

I am currently living in Doha, Qatar. An Arab state which makes street photography more challenging.

You can find more of my works here: https://www.instagram.com/veinte_dos_street/ 

Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman lives in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and daughter. She has been developing film and making silver gelatin prints since her Dad built a darkroom in their home in the late 70's/early 80's. This early exposure to the darkroom led to a fascination of live chemical reactions and the energy and connection of things. Initially drawn to landscape photography, her focus shifted to portrait and documentary photography once her daughter was born.

Ellen spearheaded the Film Shooters Collective first group exhibition: "NSEW: Divided by Land, United by Film". The exhibit was on display at the Kranzberg Art Gallery in St. Louis, MO August 5th-27th, 2016.

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.

Connect with Ellen on her website: www.thefeeloffilm.com Twitter: @thefeeloffilm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellengoodman/