Emerging young film photographers

gr82bart · Jun 2, 2017

So many using colour film too. Exciting! Wonder if any are members here?

http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/06/filmisnotdead/

Regards, Art

chip j · Jun 2, 2017

It's all barf, IMHO.

mike c · Jun 2, 2017

chip j said:
It's all barf, IMHO.

That is the kind of Knee Jerk remark this forum does not need. gr82bart has taken the time to post this site , it is all related to analog photography which is the main purpose of this forum.

chip j · Jun 3, 2017

I thought this forum was about doing GOOD analog photography.

Ricardo Miranda · Jun 3, 2017

Thanks for posting this!

I'll add this chap 18 years old Dan Kerin: Dead Link Removed

I've met many under 25 years old photographers, not so many professionals, but many amateurs or aspiring to professional level.

chip j · Jun 3, 2017

I was an Old Master @ 20.

removed account4 · Jun 3, 2017

thanks art!
thanks ricardo !

chip j said:
I thought this forum was about doing GOOD analog photography.

one could easily say its at least as good as most of the photography on this website,
the large format forum photo.net and other places ...

pdeeh · Jun 3, 2017

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Ricardo Miranda · Jun 3, 2017

pdeeh said:
Make apug great again
Vote Mao Zedong 2020

LOL

AgX · Jun 3, 2017

"So many..." ??
I do not come across young analog photographers at art academies nor art shows.

Bob Carnie · Jun 3, 2017

chip j said:
I thought this forum was about doing GOOD analog photography.

Please show us some so we can learn

Patrick Robert James · Jun 3, 2017

Young people shooting film is great, but I am so tired of all the dead faces.

chip j · Jun 3, 2017

Bob Carnie said:
Please show us some so we can learn

I'll see if someone can show me how to post.

Alan Klein · Jun 3, 2017

We always need new blood. Nice work. Great for film.

Lachlan Young · Jun 3, 2017

gr82bart said:
Wonder if any are members here?

I know Alan Knox quite well - & this thread is at risk of acquiring something of the infamous Marshall McLuhan scene in 'Annie Hall'...

Patrick Robert James said:
but I am so tired of all the dead faces

There's a (probably unintentional) pun here - but I'll leave you to read the article to find out...

pdeeh · Jun 4, 2017

Lachlan Young said:
the infamous Marshall McLuhan scene in 'Annie Hall'...

Had to google that.

macfred · Jun 4, 2017

Although I love Martha in the morning ...

removed account4 · Jun 7, 2017

Bob Carnie said:
Please show us some so we can learn

he did ! media > albums > chip j
they aren't in the regular gallery.

removed account4 · Jun 7, 2017

IDK.
some of them are pretty nice ..
maybe its about taste ?
i've seen work that is worshipped by some folks
and it didn't really do much for me, and seen
work was rough around the edges and it hit me like
a ton of bricks ...

tim_walls · Jun 7, 2017

jnanian said:
IDK.
some of them are pretty nice ..
maybe its about taste ?
i've seen work that is worshipped by some folks
and it didn't really do much for me, and seen
work was rough around the edges and it hit me like
a ton of bricks ...

They look pretty good to me. I really like the one by Owen Harvey.

I know I'd love to be as talented as any of them, frankly. As Mr Harvey says,

I shoot film because I love the process of waiting to see what I have on the rolls. I also love how well it deals with the differences between harsh shadows and highlights and remains details in both.

Since they all seem to have mastered the art of sharp focus and not blowing the highlights in every shot, I'd say they were a cut above many a photographer. (Although probably the most important lesson I've learned is that blown highlights and soft focus are part of my artistic vision, dahlinks... )

(The Cian Oba-Smith one is also a favourite, I should add, it's an excellent subject and the quality of the light is superb - London council estates do not normally look that, well, almost bucolic for want of a better word.)

Helios 1984 · Jun 7, 2017

chip j said:
I thought this forum was about doing GOOD analog photography.

I’m afraid you’re mistaken, it's just about analog photography, that's why APUG is so great.

removed account4 · Jun 7, 2017

tim_walls said:
They look pretty good to me. I really like the one by Owen Harvey.

I know I'd love to be as talented as any of them, frankly. As Mr Harvey says,

Since they all seem to have mastered the art of sharp focus and not blowing the highlights in every shot, I'd say they were a cut above many a photographer. (Although probably the most important lesson I've learned is that blown highlights and soft focus are part of my artistic vision, dahlinks... )

(The Cian Oba-Smith one is also a favourite, I should add, it's an excellent subject and the quality of the light is superb - London council estates do not normally look that, well, almost bucolic for want of a better word.)

hi tim
i enjoyed the images linked to in the original post too !
in the post you quoted, i was referring to the images chip uploaded. ( michael r was referring to them )
i can see why his friend suggested some looked like italian film stills

LAG · Jun 8, 2017

jnanian said:
maybe its about taste ? ...

It is! all about taste!

Taste to judge their young works, taste to call them as emerging, taste to appoint those expert tasters (who must judge & call), taste to taste the taste of the tasters ... !!! ???

chip j said:
It's all barf, IMHO.

In my humble case, I would like to know whether this comment of yours is as it reflects or it really has justified reasons behind (I'm not talking about any work to compare with) ... and if so, I'd like to read it, even if what you have to say it is not my cup of tea!

pdeeh · Jun 8, 2017

Sometimes it is difficult to step beyond one's own preferences (which might be the same as "taste") to make a judgement as to aesthetic quality (or even technical quality)
Sometimes it not so difficult of course; I think it depends on how much capacity for tolerance and open-mindedness one has.

One doesn't have to dismiss things one doesn't like, or feel indifferent towards. I don't care for Cartier-Bresson, by and large, but that doesn't stop me recognising what it is in his photography that is admirable and led to his fame and influence; and I can't look for very long at a Francis Bacon, but being sent to place of almost visceral fear and disgust by his work doesn't stop me regarding him a genius to be revered.

These photographs are "not my thing" (it's not so much I dislike them, simply that they don't interest me), but that doesn't lead me to dismiss them as poor photographs (or the photographers as bad photographers). I just have to leave my judgement in abeyance. I might change my mind very readily if I saw them as a body of work in a gallery for instance, or I might not. Who knows?

LAG · Jun 8, 2017

pdeeh said:
Sometimes ...

I may agree or disagree with this, but one thing is clear, these kind of reasoned comments and full of wisdom, are compatible to my taste!

pdeeh said:
... to make a judgement as to aesthetic quality (or even technical quality) ... I think it depends on how much capacity for tolerance and open-mindedness one has.

Among many other important aspects, in addition to those two (rightly quoted) related to the capabilities of human behavior.

pdeeh said:
...I just have to leave my judgement in abeyance. I might change my mind very readily if I saw them as a body of work in a gallery for instance, or I might not. Who knows?

Indeed! And a very close example is we ourselves in our own lifes with our own works, has not anyone of you appreciated or judged any particular photograph you've made (or seen) some other time before, in a different way? Think why this happens ...

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