LFG call for submissions Are you a LoFi Fool? A brand new London gallery is looking for the best and most interesting images taken with LoFi cameras – that’s Holga, Lomo, Polaroid, Diana and iP...
The world of 35mm Panorama photography is about to be turned on its head! The Hasselblad XPAN has long been the ultimate camera for shooting panoramics on 35mm film. And although it is a dream of cam...
Late last year, a few of us in the local film-lovers group wanted to be a bit sociable and go on a photowalk together. Not just any old photowalk though – something a little different, more int...
It’s been a while, but we’ve really missed doing our monthly picks from Flickr. To get back into the swing of things, and to celebrate our rather “ethereal” presence recently,...
Apparently it’s Christmas soon – and so, like every year, I find myself opening hundreds of browser tabs filled with handmade items, trying to decide if I should buy things for other peop...
What, is it almost Christmas or something? As if Lomography releasing the LomoKino wasn’t enough, it now looks like a new camera from Holga will be vying for many people’s stocking space....
Forget HD video. Remember Holga at the Movies, showcasing some interesting ways to get mini-movies from your camera? Well now the Lomography lot have released the LomoKino, a 35mm camera with a hand-...
Have you ever heard the famous words of Dr Johnson “When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.”? Maybe you have or maybe you haven’t, or maybe you have never worried about stereot...
We all know that kodachrome was dropped by the brilliant folks over at Kodak a little while ago and that the last roll was developed by Dwayne’s Photo at the end of 2010. As sad as it is, in some we...
My experiment for this month (the nude/interesting part of the theme) hasn’t quite gone to plan, although my results can at least be classed as interesting so I feel it’s worthy of a blog post… Deep ...
Picture credit: flickr.com/photos/nacente The nude has been a long standing structure in the art world for centuries. It has, as with nude photography, been seen as iconic, invasive, perverse and bea...
110 film has a special place for me – my first cameras as a kid was a little 110 thing, maybe a Halina which flipped open and made a fairly unsatisfying click when you took a picture. I took ph...
June11, 2011 – July 6, 2011 LightBox Photographic Gallery is pleased to announce the call for submissions for our second annual Plastic Fantastic Show. This group show celebrates LightBox’s love for ...
Come to The Holga Hustle and Print Show at the Bistro to see what you can do with a Holga image. Space is limited to only 20 people! More info here!
Holgablog: You are both known for your landscape work with digital cameras. What inspired you to return to the world of film by shooting Holgas? Darwin: I shot film for much of my career as a photog...
Picture this: A rainy Sunday afternoon, a train ticket, a camera, several rolls of film and an idea that might sound rather strange, but deeply inspired by some thoughts on photography – Just another...
Rich Burroughs: I bought my first Holga four years ago. I was shopping for a DSLR at the time but somehow I stumbled across a web site with some beautiful Holga images. I was taken immediately with t...
I nearly missed out on this gem of a camera at a car boot sale when my sister banned me from buying anything until I had sold at least one item from our own sale. Luckily it was still there when I ha...
How old were you when you first took up photography? What was your first camera? I got my first camera – a Canon Sure Shot – when I was about 13 (although I seem to remember using 110 cam...
Congratulations to Rebecca Pendel for winning HolgaBlog’s Pinhole contest! Here are Rebecca’s winning images: You can see more of Rebecca’s work HERE Thank you to all that entered a...
Here are our favorite Holga shots on Flickr from the month of January. Looks like we’re starting the year off right with lots of great photos! We suggest clicking through to that person’s Flick...
One of my earliest experiences of photography was actually in a pinhole workshop at High School, so I have fond memories of creating a camera out of an old cake tin and developing my first ever photo...
I’d never used a pinhole camera before, so I was excited for Holga Blog’s Pinhole January. I had big plans to make a 120 pinhole camera from scratch and present you with the schematics a...
We’ve added another piece to our all ready awesome puzzle with Holgadirect.com! Have a little read about our newest sponsor….. 1. How long has Holgadirect.com been around for? We first s...
I love all things do-it-yourself especially with photography so I was really looking forward to getting started with the DIY ‘all included’ camera kit I got given! It was apparently very cheap so I w...
Well, this is a fun little Holga. OK, maybe little isn’t the right word, but it sure is fun! There really isn’t anything hard about this camera. What makes it different is the fact that ...
I’m a lucky person really – people actually ask me what I’d like for Christmas. However, this time round I was a little stumped – there are cameras that are “fun” ...
That’s right folks, this months POTM is a duo! So lets get right into it. We had the pleasure of having a pretty in-depth Q&A session online with our Pinhole couple, and here it is for your...
The ever magical world of film photography, in the digital age, never ceases to present methods of experimentation insipred by the ideas of photographers since Nicéphore Niépce fashioned the first pe...
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