Hello everybody,
My wife is american and she got homesick, so I moved from Paris to LA three years ago.
I am a photographer from Agence VU.
Refusing to go digital, I work less and less for the press to just focus on my work (I do scan, but that's it.) and try to live on "Fine Art". I do mostly urban landscape and portraits now.
I keep one foot in France being the correspondent for some newspapers and magazines. Not news, portrait and stories assignment.
I can't stand to see the computer world taking power of that medium.
I collect cameras like a crazy. My workhorse were for a long time Rolleiflex TLR 3,5F Planar and the amazing 55 Wide. I do Blad too, but I feel so much better with the Rollei.
4x5 and 8x10 came as natural. Starting with an old Linhof long time ago, I now use Toyo in 4x5 and Cambo in 8x10. I sold a Canham 8x10 and it's the most stupid thing I ever did (in the photographic field...).
Found Brooks veriwide here (very rare in France) and enjoy it .
I discovered last year the beauty of 35mm, after 20 years of photography, and shoot with Leica M6. It's so cool to have just a little camera sometime...
Almost monomaniac with Tri-X in all format and lover of the 55PN in 4x5. I try now Bergger, Classic and Efke in case Tri-X disappears. I still have some stock of Verichrome but the end is soon.
The lab is Omega D5 and Durst 138 with cold light. I couldn't move the 184 from my lab in Paris. And I really miss that "Grosse Bertha"...
I print mostly on Agfa and Kentmere. Do Lith on Forte polywarmtone until it last.
I want to go for POP print. I would like to go for Collodion as film is in danger.
As you can see I'm a BW lover.
I am so relieved to have found Freestyle in LA. First it is a place where traditionnal photography equipment doesn't shrink every week (so depressing in the other places). Second, they imported the kentmere line that I was missing so much from France.
I'm very interested by this place, APUG.
IT'S REALLY GOOD TO READ YOU !!!!
Guillaume Zuili
www.zuili.net
www.agencevu.fr
My wife is american and she got homesick, so I moved from Paris to LA three years ago.
I am a photographer from Agence VU.
Refusing to go digital, I work less and less for the press to just focus on my work (I do scan, but that's it.) and try to live on "Fine Art". I do mostly urban landscape and portraits now.
I keep one foot in France being the correspondent for some newspapers and magazines. Not news, portrait and stories assignment.
I can't stand to see the computer world taking power of that medium.
I collect cameras like a crazy. My workhorse were for a long time Rolleiflex TLR 3,5F Planar and the amazing 55 Wide. I do Blad too, but I feel so much better with the Rollei.
4x5 and 8x10 came as natural. Starting with an old Linhof long time ago, I now use Toyo in 4x5 and Cambo in 8x10. I sold a Canham 8x10 and it's the most stupid thing I ever did (in the photographic field...).
Found Brooks veriwide here (very rare in France) and enjoy it .
I discovered last year the beauty of 35mm, after 20 years of photography, and shoot with Leica M6. It's so cool to have just a little camera sometime...
Almost monomaniac with Tri-X in all format and lover of the 55PN in 4x5. I try now Bergger, Classic and Efke in case Tri-X disappears. I still have some stock of Verichrome but the end is soon.
The lab is Omega D5 and Durst 138 with cold light. I couldn't move the 184 from my lab in Paris. And I really miss that "Grosse Bertha"...
I print mostly on Agfa and Kentmere. Do Lith on Forte polywarmtone until it last.
I want to go for POP print. I would like to go for Collodion as film is in danger.
As you can see I'm a BW lover.
I am so relieved to have found Freestyle in LA. First it is a place where traditionnal photography equipment doesn't shrink every week (so depressing in the other places). Second, they imported the kentmere line that I was missing so much from France.
I'm very interested by this place, APUG.
IT'S REALLY GOOD TO READ YOU !!!!
Guillaume Zuili
www.zuili.net
www.agencevu.fr