Developing Stories: Jung Ho Do — A Discipline of Subtraction
Jung Ho Do photographs the streets of Old Québec by taking things away: waiting for light, reducing distraction, and looking for the instant when an ordinary scene becomes...
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Developing Stories – Interviews with Film Photographers
People, projects and photographic stories developed through our studio, lab and creative community in Berlin.
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Developing Stories: Susan Eline — The Subject Doesn’t Change, the Lens Does
Susan Eline’s portrait practice grew from inherited cameras and Amsterdam’s music scene. Now she is using different photographic devices to explore identity, perception and the many versions of...
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Developing Stories: Brandon Langiano — Relearning How to See
After years in Europe, Brandon Langiano’s return to Tasmania forced him to separate his photographic eye from the cities that had shaped it—and to begin again more slowly.
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Developing Stories: Anthony Porcaro — When Fiction Becomes Chemical Evidence
Anthony Porcaro builds fictional scenes and then subjects them to wet-plate collodion, using the physical evidence of chemistry to question what makes a photograph feel truthful.
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Developing Stories: Alexandra Fuller — The Looking Is the Whole Point
For Alexandra Fuller, sustained attention is a form of care. Her photographs of landscape, animals, traces and openings grow from a life spent writing, filmmaking and learning how...
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Developing Stories: Miguel Inzunza — Slowing Down Enough to Notice
Miguel Inzunza reflects on analogue photography as a way to slow down, notice everyday life and turn ordinary moments into memory.
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Developing Stories: Rori — What We Keep When Ordinary Life Becomes Memory
For Rori, photography is less about forcing a project than allowing everyday images to gather meaning over time—from family memories in Indonesia to a slower film practice in...
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Developing Stories: Nick Carver — Photographing What Everyone Else Drives Past
Nick Carver uses slow analogue processes to photograph overlooked buildings and ordinary urban scenes—the places most people pass without a second thought, often just before they disappear.
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Developing Stories: Rocío Tenaglia — The Homes We Carry
Rocío Tenaglia photographs people, homes, plants and cities through intuition, using film as a way to hold together memory, movement, love and the changing meaning of home.
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Developing Stories: Yuliya Panchenko — Rebuilding a Missing History
Yuliya Panchenko’s Forbidden Frames project uses 100 cameras across roughly a century of photographic history to ask what intimate photography might have looked like—and why so much of...
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Developing Stories: Sebastián Neira González — The City Is Alive and I’m Part of It
For Sebastián Neira González, analogue photography interrupts routine. From Santiago and Valparaíso to his first months in Berlin, the camera is a way to slow down, enter the...
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Developing Stories: Manuel Guerzoni — Precision as Respect
Manuel Guerzoni uses photography to quiet his own internal noise and turn his attention toward social fractures in the United States, treating technical precision as a form of...
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Developing Stories: John Hoare — The Theatre of the Plate
John Hoare on wet-plate collodion, slow portraiture, chemistry, theatre and the pleasure of making one physical image at a time.
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Developing Stories: Hazal Karadag — Giving Ordinary Things More Importance
Hazal Karadag photographs colours, animals, people and small neighbourhood details on film, turning chance encounters into markers of places and periods she wants to remember.
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Developing Stories: Adrian Lee — The Making Is as Important as the Result
Adrian Lee on wet-plate collodion as craft, history, chemistry, collaboration, failure and a way of making photographs from scratch.
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Developing Stories: Felipe Tofani — Finding Your Own Way Through Berlin
Felipe Tofani returned to film during the pandemic, drawn to its slowness, experimentation and ability to turn a developed roll into a trip back in time. Berlin became...
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Developing Stories: Mike Weinberg — The Journey Is the Destination
Mike Weinberg on film photography as presence, meditation, patience and a way of getting lost in the world rather than in thought.
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Developing Stories: Grant Bayley — The iPhone Is Temporary
Grant Bayley on analogue photography, family archives, inherited cameras and why physical memories matter in a digital life.
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