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LomographyFilmReimagining Films on Film: The Devil Wears Prada Our special Writer's Notes edition is back with another reimagined film on film: The Devil Wears Prada.

LomographyFilmIn Depth: A Brief History of the Disposable, then Reloadable, Camera Take a walk through the history of the disposable cameras, from one-photo wonders to reloadable and sustainable.

LomographyFilmA Natural Approach with Emma Ledwith and the Joseph Petzval 55 f/1.7 Focus-coupled Bokeh Control Art Lens Sheffield-based photographer Emma Ledwith created a series of portraits with the Joseph Petzval 55 f/1.7 Focus-coupled Bokeh Control Art Lens and experimented in different environments.

LomographyFilmBetween Light, Shadow, and Emotion: Carl Cengiz Rakip Tests Lomography Films Fueled by curiosity, Carl Cengiz Rakip recently set out to try all of Lomography's film stocks. In this interview, he shares his insights and explains how analogue photography expands perspective on…

LomographyFilmCoffee in Kent and a Photowalk in London with Elliot Masters and the Lomo MC-A Teacher and freelance photographer Elliot Masters created a photo diary of this latest travels using the Lomo MC-A.

LomographyFilmAn Analogue Adventure in Egypt: Adrian Norbert Cuper Packs the Fisheye No. 2 & Sprocket Rocket The pyramids basked in sunlight, camels resting against the warm sand...Adrian Norbert Cuper knows how to capture these memorable sights with the Sprocket Rocket and Fisheye No. 2 cameras!

LomographyFilmA Day With Taiwanese Breakdancer Quake: Getting Better and Learning to Appreciate One's Self More Breakdancing athlete Sun Chen, a.k.a. Quake, shares his daily life after the Paris Olympics, captured with the Lomo'Instant Automat Glass.

LomographyFilmWhat Happened to My Photos? — A Beginner's Guide to Common Film Photography Mistakes Not sure what went wrong with your film? Learn to identify common film photography issues with this beginner's troubleshooting guide.

LomographyFilmChasing the Subtle Poetic Quality of Film: Taiwanese Photographer Jon Li with the Half-frame Simple Use Reloadable Film Camera Professional photographer Jon Li tests the brand-new Half-frame Simple Use Reloadable Film Camera, documenting his trip to Seoul, the captivating moments in his daily life, and the irreplaceable…

LomographyFilmThe Places We Call Home: Ala Kheir on the Sudan Family Archives Ala Kheir shares how his project, Sudan Family Archives, keeps collective memory and legacy alive in times of loss and change.

LomographyFilmDecorating the Lomo'Instant Automat With My Colors: Artist BOM’s Custom Camera & Colorful Album of June Memories We handed artist BOM a white Lomo'Instant Automat and invited her to customize it. With her one-of-a-kind, colorful camera, decorated with her own stickers and 3D-printed keychains, BOM captured fun…

LomographyFilmFalling for Half-Frame (Again) – A Half-frame Simple Use Reloadable Film Camera Review by @mackiechartres In this review, Community member and half-frame fan Patrick (@mackiechartres) takes us around Chartres and Paris, and talks about his first three rolls with the Half-Frame Simple Use Reloadable…

LomographyFilmHarris Tomlinson-Spence Captures Nothing But Thieves on the Half-frame Simple Use Reloadable Film Camera We talk to Harris Tomlinson-Spence about shooting Nothing But Thieves with the Half-frame Simple Use Reloadable Film Camera.

LomographyFilmFilm Soup Workshop Recap: Discovering the Magic of Experimental Photography with La Peliculera & Beatriz Tamarit Last June, we explored the experimental side of analogue photography alongside La Peliculera and photographer Beatriz Tamarit, through a Film Soup Workshop full of creativity and good vibes in the…

LomographyFilmLomography Community Recap: August 2026 Here’s your monthly dose of the latest happenings in the Lomography Community! Curious as to what your fellow Lomographers have been up to, or want the latest scoop on our ongoing Competitions?

LomographyFilmSynesthesia Mixtape Vol. 5: Standing Between Two Worlds Following our Synesthesia series, we're inviting Community members to curate image-inspired playlists with Lomography. Our fifth album cover features the work of @bertietaylor.

LomographyFilmMemory Visually Captured: Bineesh Viswam on Exploring Joseph Petzval Focus-coupled Bokeh Control Art Lenses Bineesh Viswam, a Director of Photography from India, shares a documentary project inspired by the lives of Padma Shri award winners, framing their unique life stories with the signature look of…

LomographyFilmCollecting Everyday Sceneries: Hong Kong Artist Apple Wong and Her Analogue Visual Diary Hong Kong artist Apple Wong uses the Lomo’Instant Wide Glass to create a visual diary of her daily life and travels, combining instant photos, sketches, and paper collages to record everyday life.

LomographyFilmCreators in Focus: Filmmaker Justin Kaminuma on Embracing Experimentation and Creative Instincts Our next Creators in Focus edition features Japanese-American visual artist Justin Kaminuma, exploring his experimental approach to filmmaking and discovering the inspirations that fuel his work.

LomographyFilm7 of the Best Smallest Film Cameras You Should Know About Sometimes, the biggest personalities come in the smallest packages. This saying rings truer for the pocket-sized powerhouses featured in today’s list of compact shooters.

LomographyFilmFrom the Archives of The Family Museum: Historical Tintypes Collection Archival project The Family Museum (@the-family-museum) is dedicated to the legacy of photography and how it's been used across the decades.

LomographyFilmAsian Glow’s US Tour on the Half-Frame Lomourette & Sprocket Rocket With their raw sound and dreamlike melodies, South Korean musical act Asian Glow has carved out a world of their own.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo