My feet are on the ground, my mind is somewhere else Hi, this is me, Mara. The name I was given, a short name easy to pronounce.   My approach to photography? That old Olympus camera with which my relatives took many many pictures when I was a child. Those were…

Our reader David Turnbull was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photography and decided to embark on a project that embraced simplicity. For the project, he used only one camera and a 50mm lens to photograph some of the performers at the Buskerfest Festival. David avoided the use of flashes or reflectors…

GRAIN magazine Flickr Group For those of you familiar with Flickr, no introduction is needed. But for those who don’t know it yet, suffice it to say that it is one of the oldest and largest online Photography communities. It has numerous advantages over other platforms, and unlike Instagram, Flickr…

Despite Instagram’s dominance as an image-sharing platform, its broad scope and recent changes have left many photographers disillusioned. The platform’s evolution has not catered well to the specific needs of photographers, particularly those dedicated to film photography. Fortunately, there are several alternative platforms that focus specifically on the unique requirements…

Abhishek Singh is a Documentary Photographer determined to tell the story of those with no voice in society. Over a long period and in collaboration with local NGOs, Abhishek followed the child labour of children who roamed the garbage hills of Old Delhi, collecting materials that may be of some…

Bart Mulder, from the Netherlands, kindly agreed to be interviewed and tell us a little about his story, what sparked his passion for photography and why he prefers to use compact cameras, whether digital or analogue. From Kodak Portra 400 to Gold 200 and Ultramax 400, his film choices vary,…