Developing Stories: Orel Robert — Making Time to Notice
Orel Robert / ORX Visuals on learning through everyday observation, photographing with an iPhone and finding time for a creative practice alongside work.
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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: An Sen — A Memory Inside a Memory
An Sen on a birthday photograph, the freedom to make imperfect pictures, and keeping a visual diary across film, digital and a move from Vietnam to the United...
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Developing Stories: Chihiro Sugita — The World Within Five Metres
Osaka-based photographer Chihiro Sugita on family albums, life close to home, a Hiroshima zine and why a photograph’s meaning can change without its value diminishing.
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Developing Stories: Adrian / aka_papu — Learning to See a Roll Differently
Adrian / aka_papu on the engineer’s eye for urban geometry, the disappointment that can follow a new roll, and photographs that become favourites a few days later.
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Developing Stories: Tanya Fishmann — What Remains After the Ritual
Tanya Fishmann on Phoenix, the difference between a ritual and its photographic traces, and why a self-portrait can reveal a meaning years after it was made.
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Developing Stories: Rodrigo — The Longer You Wait, the More Precious It Becomes
Rodrigo on cats, cityscapes, the Olympus Trip 35, exploring Berlin through photowalks and why photographs become more valuable as memories move further away.
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Developing Stories: Costanza Parigi — Colour Is an Interpretation
Costanza Parigi on colour as interpretation, forgetting what is on a roll, double exposure, visual anthropology and photographing the street life of Belém and Manaus.
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Developing Stories — Selen: Learning to Notice What Is Already There
A written conversation with Berlin-based photographer Selen about everyday moments, trying film stocks and learning to notice without turning a hobby into pressure.
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Developing Stories — Naima El Hawary: Seeing the Familiar Again
Naima El Hawary on returning to Germany, finding a photography community through PolaWalk and discovering what film can reveal in familiar places.
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Developing Stories — anton sheyn: Finding Yourself in the Everyday
From a rediscovered Lubitel to everyday train journeys and self-portraits, anton sheyn is building a film photography diary of Berlin by following what catches his attention.
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Developing Stories: Luca Mazzara — Making Time Visible
Luca Mazzara on long-exposure portraits, building trust before a session, choosing the finished image and preserving the gestures of artisans through Guardians of Time.
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Developing Stories — Alejandra Quintana: The Photograph Stays, We Change
Alejandra Quintana on the people a project brings into your life, the pull of familiar places, and photographs whose meaning only becomes clear with time.
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Developing Stories — Ethan Allen: Geometry, Skateboarding and Room for Memory
Ethan Allen on how skateboarding shaped his architectural photography, ten years of Romance in Geometry, and making room for photographs that preserve everyday memories.
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Developing Stories: Philipp Schaefer — The Materialization of a Wink
Philipp Schaefer on faces, family, urban spaces and why film turns a fleeting moment into a physical negative.
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Developing Stories: Tereza Vondrackova — Returning to the Present
Tereza Vondrackova returned to analogue photography around thirty and found a familiar way of making memories: one rooted in childhood cameras, neighbourhood life in Wedding, travel and the...
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Developing Stories: Grégoire Huret — Many Hours of Walking
Grégoire Huret photographs Paris by walking: faces, clothes, gestures, fashion-week crowds and the strange accidents that make street photography feel like a record of its time.
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Developing Stories: Bryan Garris — Returning Until a Place Reveals Itself
Bryan Garris photographs landscapes by returning to them again and again, building memory through film, handmade prints and the conviction that meaningful places are often closer than we...
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Developing Stories: Eldin van Hengst — Creating from a Lighter Place
Eldin van Hengst, working as Diginaat, built a photographic language around vulnerability, imperfection and intense emotion. Now a happier chapter is asking him to discover what his art...
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