The Mamiya 7 has long held its place as a cult favorite in the world of medium format film photography, and for good reason. In this feature, we’re spotlighting 20 standout photographers using the Mamiya 7 in 2025. From portraits to sweeping landscapes, their work showcases the camera’s signature clarity, tonal range, and cinematic feel.

These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand-out must-see images produced in 2024. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!

Can the complexity of mental health be captured in a photograph? Dana Stirling’s Why Am I Sad? uses vibrant imagery to unravel the duality of human emotion—playful surfaces and the shadows beneath.

The Mamiya 7 camera is a cult icon in the medium format photography world. If you weren’t convinced this camera is your grail camera, you will be after seeing these 20 medium format film photographs!

These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand-out must-see images produced in 2023. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!

Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of film soup photography! These 16 photographers utilize this audacious technique, soaking their negatives in unexpected solutions or altering their Polaroids during development, to create unique and unpredictable art. Explore this cutting-edge realm with our specially curated collection by Amy Elizabeth of Film Lab 135!

In "The Sniper Paused So He Could Wipe His Brow," Sean Lotman masterfully blends travelogue and photo-book, taking readers on a remarkable 15-year journey across 20 countries. Each picture, taken with a lo-fi Diana F+ camera, offers a snapshot of a fading past, creating an interactive narrative of memory, time, and travel.

The Mamiya 7 camera is a cult icon in the medium format photography world. If you weren’t convinced this camera was your grail camera, you will be after seeing what these 20 medium format film photographs!

These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand out must-see images produced in 2022. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!

Photographer Gerry Yaum investigates the Mae Sot Thailand garbage dumps where more than 50 Mon and Karen refugee and immigrant families live. Displaced by poverty, war, and political instability of Burma (Myanmar), Yaum doesn’t just tell their story but has become a part of it.

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.

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!

From Discrimination to Drag-queens, Erotica to Equality - LGBTQIA+ people have utilized the photographic arts to showcase and celebrate identities and social progress for decades. See our list of 25 photographers you need to know right now!

Nika De Carlo dives deep into the emotional trenches of her and her partner’s war on addiction, recovery, trauma, and healing. Her intimate and brutally honest documentary project and visual diary is entitled “See You In Heaven.”

The Mamiya 7 camera is a cult icon in the medium format photography world. If you weren’t convinced this camera was your grail camera, you will be after seeing what these 20 medium format film photographs!

Travel around the world through the eyes of 15 established and emerging documentary photographers and discover the insightful, moving, and beautiful intricacies and varieties of human experience they create with the medium of film photography.

Diane Meyer’s “Berlin” investigates the former Berlin Wall using a combination of analog, digital, and mixed media processes that deceives the viewer to see pixelated sections that enhance a connection between forgetting and file corruption.

Gracie Baer’s series “Corporeal Worth” draws parallels between our relationship with the natural world and society by contemplating the commonality between animals and people, in both life and in death.

The Harvey Milk Photo Center is one of the oldest and largest public darkrooms in the United States. Originally opened in 1940, it serves as an inclusive space for people to express themselves through photography.

Lomography film is a cult icon in the film photography world. If you weren’t convinced that Lomography is your chance to get creative, you will be after seeing what these 20 photographers have made with their films and cameras!