Featured Photographer: Felicita Russo - "Imaginary Landscape"
Italian photographer Felicita Russo’s instant film based creations of extraterrestrial worlds and breathtaking future landscapes bridge the gap between traditional painting, contemporary art, and science fiction. Through her work, she pushes the boundaries of contemporary light painting to new frontiers.
Interview: Gerry Yuam - “Families of the Dump”
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.
Community Spotlight: The 12:12 Project
The 12:12 Project is an international collective of artists using instant film to explore monthly themes. Featuring 42 artists who have contributed to the 12:12 project since 2013, a new exhibition up now showcases the astounding creativity of these photographers and demonstrates the versatility and artistic potential of instant film.
Analog Forever Magazine - Edition 7 Artist Announcement!
Analog Forever Magazine Edition 7 includes interviews with Meghann Riepenhoff, Jason Langer, Angel O’Brien, Landry Major, and Yoav Friedlander accompanied by portfolio features of Minh Hoang, Cathy Cone, Rebecca Zeiss, and Barbara Hazen. Notably, this edition also includes a retrospective on the life and work of Penny Felts.
NSFW | 29 Wet Plate Collodion Photographers You Need to Know!
Though it was founded in in 1851, the wet plate collodion process has seen a resurgence over the last 20 years. Photographers from around the world are looking back and embracing the magic of this historic process. We are pleased to help you discover 29 established and emerging wet plate photographers that deserve recognition to show you exactly why this medium is as beautiful as it is important.
Book Review: “After Beauty” by Maura Sullivan
In a book review about more of what was felt than what was seen in Maura Sullivan’s latest monograph, “After Beauty,” we dive in to experience the mysterious world of her photographic archive that showcase photographs born of deep-seated memories that invoke our drive to seek sincere connections.
Featured Photographer: Victoria Kosel - “A Cut Above”
Victoria Kosel quite literally destroys her photographs, only to create them anew. Her sliced and diced prints are reborn into fragmented scenes that force the brain to fill in the gaps that challenge the ideas of traditional landscape photography.
Featured Photographer: Ian Hill - The Fisher King and Other Stories
British photographer Ian Hill explores the rugged Cumbrian countryside investigating the psychological connection we find in and with the landscape. Intertwining words and images, in zines or on the web, he creates modern mythologies which explore the perpetual relationship between man and nature.
Book Review: "Dust" by Patrick Wack
With imagery ranging from sublime landscapes to intimate portraiture, photographer Patrick Wack's 2021 photobook DUST is an expansive exploration of the rich geography and culture of the Chinese region of Xinjiang, a place where the Chinese government is systematically perpetrating human rights abuses on a massive scale.
Book Review: “O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South”
“O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town,” presents a panorama of Southern life captured by Mississippi photographer Pruitt (1891-1967), and adds thoughtful essays about the lives and places pictured. Published by the University of North Carolina Press, this book is 272 pages of both history and stunning photography.
Interview: Aliki Braine - On Making vs. Taking
London based artist, Aliki Braine, makes images that highlight the materiality of analog photography. By cutting up, folding, stickering and punching holes in negatives, she asks her viewers to slow down and reconsider what a photograph is and reminds of photography’s roots as something to be held and revered as on object.
Interview: Ed Kashi - “Abandoned Moments”
With the release of Ed Kashi's latest monograph, “Abandoned Moments,” we get the chance to look over a career-spanning retrospective of a photographer's work and style, and along with it, a specific aesthetic found within the final images chosen for this incredible book. Not simply a book review–this is an interview with one of the country’s finest photojournalists.
Polaroid Week - Spring 2022: Our Top 20 Favorites!
Polaroid Week is a bi-annual celebration of instant film that allows lovers of the medium to share their newly created instant works across the internet! See our top selections from this season now!
Analog Forever Magazine Edition 6 Artist Announcement!
Analog Forever Magazine Edition 6 includes interviews with Michael Massaia, Deborah Parkin, Amanda Marchand, and Amy Sue Greenleaf, accompanied by features of Leila Ali, Renée Jacobs, Christian K. Lee, Loren Nelson, Graciana Piaggio, and Manon Weiser.
NSFW | Featured Photographer: La Fille Renne - “Reclaiming Our Bodies: Systemic, Gynecological, and Obstetric Violence Towards Our Sexes in the Framework of Health”
La Fille Renne––non-binary photographer and co-director of feminist media, Polysème Magazine––gives insight to their series, Reclaiming Our Bodies: Systemic, Gynecological, and Obstetric Violence Towards Our Sexes in the Framework of Health, a project that brings awareness of gynecological and obstetrical violence.
Featured Photographer: Jamie Swick - “Instant Transcendence”
Jamie Swick’s environmental portraits of the Pacific Northwest produce a distinct stillness that is undeniable. Her picturesque landscapes suggest a new era of environmentalism that isn’t fought by tying yourself to a tree, but by walking among them.
Book Review: "Dairy Character" by Odette England
“Dairy Character” is a loose chronicle of Odette England’s experience growing up on a dairy farm in southern Australia. Combining recent photographs, family snapshots, archival images, and short stories, England examines the male-dominant rural community in which she was raised. Please read our latest online review of this beautiful book at Analog Forever Magazine.
Featured Photographer: Luca Tombolini - "Vistas Paradossales”
Luca Tombolini’s series Vistas artistically explores the scientific idea of Space, Time, and their relativity by asking viewers to consider the perception of their via place in the universe via the combination of long and multiple exposure landscapes and cameraless microscapes made of color drops in solvents.
Featured Photographer: Liz Albert - "Family Fictions”
Liz Albert’s series, Family Fictions, take us on a journey back in time to explore family and social dynamics in the 50s and 60s through photographic slides that she has found, purchased, and combined into diptychs.
Featured Photographer: Nettie Edwards - "Grave Goods"
Nettie Edwards uses the ephemeral photographic processes of anthotype and chlorophyll printing to create personal meditations on the transitory nature of existence. By embracing processes destined to degrade she confronts the ideas of loss, grief, and mortality.