Photographer Highlights

"Hey! I’m Erik Poppen, I work almost entirely with analog mediums and can most often be found with a Mamiya 645 or Pentax 67 in hand.
As a Colorado grown and California shaped photographer, my work focuses primarily on outdoor adventure and travel, though I often explore my interest in collaborative and environmental portraiture.

I thrive in environments where I feel most alive and make imagery representing that feeling.
My work sheds light on our collective wild spirit through colorfully energetic imagery that sidesteps any bystandership to life. As my creative fire is most stoked by the intersection of people and the outdoors, I find working with film essential to my process of staying present and engaged with my work and surroundings — avoiding the distraction of an immediate return with digital mediums."

I live on the big island of Hawaii and am a waterman.
Most of my photos are shot while free-diving but I will scuba dive from time to time as well.
I am drawn to black and white photography for its timeless beauty and simple nature. I really enjoy shooting ultra-wide angle of the larger marine life, weather that be sharks, rays,
or whales.
My go to gear is a Nikon F5 with rehoused Nikonos R-UW lenses and a Hasselblad SWC/M.
All of my film is stand developed in Rodinal, rinsed in water no stop bath, and then fixed in Kodak powder fixer.
I am a lazy photographer like that and don't mind the grain. Love acutance and the high sharpness.

In this series I document my observations on the island of Tenerife as I try to capture the spirit of summer in a place where time seems to have stood still.

Since I started analog photography almost 2 years ago, l have loved everything about it.
This hobby is a way for me to slow down my hectic everyday life, to want to spend more time outside, to see more beauty in nature and in small moments and rays of light and to constantly develop not only rolls of film but
also develop myself.

I am deeply passionate about film photography and following in my Grandpa’s footsteps.
Film is the medium that allows me to capture the world in a way that feels both authentic and timeless.
There is something so special about film, to me film photography helps me slow down and fully engage with the beauty around me and escape reality for a while.

In 2024 after several years of varied photography work, I have decided to focus my attention on dark portraiture and have hired several professional models to help me achieve a niche portfolio of work.
The vast majority of my photography has been conducted either in my home studio or at The Boardroom Studio in Derby. All of it has been captured using Kodak Tri-X 400 in 120 with a Hasselblad 501CM.

"I started my photography journey in 2011 after I was given my first camera in high school, since then I’ve been viewing everything from a different perspective. Two years ago, I started getting into film with my parents’ old point and shoot camera that they purchased in the late 90's.
I went to my local park and started capturing everything
I saw that day.

"Silas Ming Lee aka #DADDY_LEE, was born in Japan in 1947 to a Chinese-American father and Chinese mother, moving to San Francisco when he was four years old and eventually driving a taxi cab for the last 45 years.
But his life is not limited to that lifelong career.
According to photographer and son Sean Marc Lee, Silas is a licensed pilot, is trained in kung fu and lion dancing, was once a proud Harley-owner and a longtime fashionista.
With an intimacy and playfulness that reflects his father’s perceptible humor, fighting spirit and defiance against the stoic stereotype of Asian fathers, Sean’s photographs his series Daddy Lee draw a portrait of a life lived wholeheartedly."
Words by Far-Near.media

"While I was not born near the ocean, I did grow up a stone’s throw from Lake Michigan, which is a glacial ocean
in its own right.
Through a series of seemingly random events, I discovered freediving in a small library in Wisconsin. As kids, we were always in the water, but this sport of breath-holding and diving was so foreign, and deeply alluring, to me.
Like finally receiving the reply to some long-unanswered question, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Having deferred from grad school, I was free to quit my job and get on a one-way flight to O’ahu, where I had signed up for my first freediving class.

"Night in Jiufen II"
The first time I used a film camera was on a trip I took to southern Taiwan when I was 11 years old.
I just wanted to take a few photos to show my family, and while those photos didn’t turn out very well, that memory has stuck with me to this very day as something really special.

I was born in Minnesota and moved to California when I was 12. My appreciation for California and the beauty of nature comes from being stuck in the snowy winters of Minnesota for the first 12 years of my life.

As a high school freshman, the darkroom was my initiation into photography — developing my own film, contact sheets and test strips, the red light and chemicals — it was all so very intoxicating.

Everyday moments have a special kind of magic and meaning. Photography is a way to celebrate that magic and to highlight the small details in life that are often overlooked.
It's about finding joy in the simple things and sharing that joy with others.

My interest in photography started right before college when my oldest sister let me borrow her DSLR.

Every time I pick up my camera and put on my wetsuit, fins, and mask, it feels freeing and exciting — like there’s a whole other world out there to explore. I love the simplicity. Just you and your camera in the big blue.

Picking up a tool to document life invites magic to happen right in front of you. If you train yourself to read these visual moments sculpted by light, you truly get to rediscover the whole world around you.

Most of my work is shot on medium format cameras with my Pentax 67ii or a Rolleiflex 6001. I do shoot the occasional 35mm through my Contax G2. I absolutely love the colors that Kodak Gold and Portra 800 produce.

I recently came third in the Up & Coming category of Underwater Photographer Of The Year, as the only photographer still shooting on film I was so happy to receive recognition from other underwater photographers based on the image regardless of the ‘outdated medium’ I still use.

I document and capture people from various cultures and environments to showcase our uniqueness and our similarities across borders.

Not only do I enjoy the challenge of shooting film in the mountains, I appreciate how present and attentive it keeps me within these incredible landscapes that are full of dynamic conditions.

These moments are typically slow and calm, a rarity in my home city of New York. With my camera I attempt to capture the essence of my subject while leaving plenty to the viewer's imagination.

"For the last 5 years, Japan has been the subject of my photography and the place I've called home since 2019.
I enjoy photographing more rural parts of Japan such as Gifu, Aichi and Mie prefectures, also known as the Tōkai region."

I am an artist and a Marine Corps Veteran who served in Operation Desert Shield/ Desert Storm and I am a recipient of the Navy Achievement Medal.

Meet Jennifer Lawrence, a passionate photographer with a deep love for travel, color, and the art of capturing fun and joyful moments.

Marco Di Stefano is an Australian Photographer and Art Director based in Berlin, Germany.

I started taking photos during COVID in Seoul as a way to show the new place I was living in to friends and family back home; then slowly, it grew on me and now I take my camera with me everywhere I go!

Wesley Verhoeve is a photographer and curator that works around the world and is currently based in Amsterdam.

I hope my photographs encourage people to experience more of the natural world. The beautiful outdoors have a tremendous positive impact on your mind, body & soul.

My aim with photography is to capture feeling and nostalgia. Photos that take you right back to how you felt in the moment are what I love.

The 35mm Canon Rebel X my father bought me years ago is still my favorite. There’s sentimental value attached to it, but it's also just a great camera that I’ll never be able to give up.

In addition to running her busy Seattle, WA studio, Sandra teaches other photographers from around the world how to create consistency in the work and sustainability in their brand and business.

There’s something so serene about going back to a time of analog, slowed down processes in this day and age of digital overstimulation. Nothing can replace the haptic feel of advancing a film lever, loading a roll of film, or the sound of a shutter slap.

Our passion lies in lifestyle and fashion photography, and when it comes to our film of choice, Kodak Portra 400 has been in our fridge and bags ever since we started.

My career as a photographer went in a very different direction than I initially thought it would and surprisingly this is the first time in my life I am able to incorporate both of my passions into one project.

I like to be inspired by movies because it allows me to analyze the framing, the lighting, the way the images are staged to serve the story.

Kodak film is the cornerstone for every analog photographer, because its historic legacy is unmatched by any other film. Shooting on Kodak film means having excellent quality and distinctive grain structure, especially in their legendary Tri-X emulsion.

Kodak Portra 400 has been my film of choice for over a decade. It offers me the greatest flexibility and the most appealing grain and color, consistent across a huge variety of situations. Portra 400 has come to define my entire body of work throughout my career.

I have always enjoyed the outdoors, but found I had a difficult time describing and sharing the natural beauty of the places I visited. Then I realized that photography was the perfect medium to express that desire artistically.

Kodak has always been a big part of my photographic story. Reliable and rich colors ranging from vibrant Ektar and to the classic hues of Portra, to my favorite T Grain film, Tmax 400, these films have been workhorses that stand the test of time.

Mike’s focus on B&W landscape photography allows him to become immersed in nature and continues to be an inspiration.

I am Zhu Jiayun. I was born and live in Shanghai. In 2009, I had a chance to use a film camera and the image developed was so amazing that I insisted on using film thereafter.

I'm Matthew Santomarco, a film photographer based out of Colorado. I'm drawn to images of the American West and I find film is the best medium to capture the dynamic tones of the region with the timeless aesthetic of film.

I was given my first camera when I was 11. I’d roam around the woods near my house as an escape from a turbulent home life. It was there in the woods with my little camera that I came alive. I'd snap photographs of deer & fox passing by as I hid in piles of leaves.

Being immersed in the untamed wilderness grounds me, both physically and mentally. From this perspective, my work addresses humankind’s relationship with nature, recognizing our growing disconnect.

I photograph people - brides, grooms, families, friends, & anyone in love. My photography is devoted to the relationships between people & the small, meaningful moments that make up everyday life.

I taught myself photography when I started taking pictures of my grandparents, and I continue to create photographic works on the theme of family.

Living in a city on the edge of the prairie, I've seen rapid growth fill in where open space once was. It became a goal to capture history before it was overwritten by modernity, lost in pavement and strip malls.

We can never stop time at the most beautiful moments in life, but through photography we can freeze those moments forever.

My style is mainly influenced by my music, street fashion, horror art and poetry. Since film is hard to access in Zimbabwe, as a photographer, the way you make use of your film is very important.

I find that Portra 400 gives me a great basis for my colors while printing or scanning, as well as a versatility for pushing and pulling when I am shooting in unique lighting conditions.

4x5 film enables me to make large silver-gelatin prints in my darkroom. I want to make prints that transport people to the time and place that I experienced, and have them see the world through my eyes - or perhaps recall their own vivid memories of the past.

It took me a while to learn the ins and outs of film photography, but the main reason I fell in love with this art is because I would never take the same scene twice just to get the shot – once I pressed that shutter, it was over and I would move on.

I started photography because I admired the photojournalists who were active at a time when they believed they could change the world through photography.