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2018 Sony World Photography Awards

25/4/2018

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Today I went to the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House, London. I hope to cover it in more detail in a later blogpost, but for now I shall list my initial impressions:
  • It took me much longer to see the whole exhibition than I had anticipated, due to the wide range of photography genres covered.
  • The judges' decisions seemed to me in many cases to be a bit arbitrary — several of the 1st-prize-winning photographs I found to be inferior to runners-up or shortlisted entries.
  • Some of the selected images could only be seen as "good photographs" once they had been given some context by the accompanying descriptions.
  • Some of the descriptions — provided by the entrants — were laughably pretentious (in my opinion, of course).
  • There was a much higher percentage of black-and-white images than I expected.
  • I'm glad I went. Despite my criticisms above, I found the exhibition inspiring in its breadth, quality, and relevance.
Check out the galleries here (open until 6th May):
https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/winners-galleries/2018-1

2018 Professional Winners

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2018 Open Winners

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2018 National Awards' Winners

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2018 Youth Winner & Shortlist

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2018 Student Focus Winner & Shortlist

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Trying out Ferrania P30 Alpha — video

8/4/2018

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The latest Coarse Camerawork video has been posted:

https://youtu.be/9at0Ub1BYI0

And while you're at it, check out the previous video here:

https://youtu.be/_eVyzSdMWXA

More Coarse Camerawork videos are in the works, and will be posted soon.
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Reasons why film might not be right for you

6/4/2018

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Film? Digital? Kip Praslowicz offers some things to consider:

Adorama recently published a blog post titled 5 Reasons Why I Am Never Going Back to Film Photography which has caused quite a stir in the film photography world. This post has really opened my eyes and has gotten me thinking about just how useless film photography is. So I've decided to throw my hat into the ring as well and bring up a few additional reasons why film photography should finally go away for good.

My Emil Praslowicz Tribute Edition Leica M3
My Emil Praslowicz Tribute Edition Leica M3

Here are four reasons why film photography is just outright stupid.

1. Dead People Have Probably Used The Gear

Very few companies are manufacturing new film cameras in this day and age. I know I have only once bought a new-in-box film camera, and that was way back around 2003. With so much of our gear being sixty or more years old and purchased used, it is very likely someone who is now dead was a previous owner.

This fact opens up all sorts of doors to hauntings that makes me somewhat scared to use film cameras. Who knows what kind of evil plan the previous owner is waiting to spring on me while out in the field while using their camera? Did you know even know that the "keh" in keh.com originally stood for "Keep `em Haunted"?

Buying the latest and greatest DSLR or mirrorless camera brand new every two years sure does ease my mind over not being haunted by some long passed photographer.

Film: 0. Digital: 1


Read the other reasons here:
https://www.kpraslowicz.com/2018/04/05/4-reasons-why-film-photography-is-just-plain-stupid
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    Paul S. Jenkins

    Paul is a writer, photographer, and erstwhile podcaster

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