The Large Format Photography Podcast

We are beginning to run out of superlatives to describe the guests we have on this show, but Simon’s title for this week’s show pretty much sums it up …. No Words Allowed. Kate Miller-Wilson joins us for a thoughtful and insightful glimpse into her daily life at home with Eian who is on the autistic spectrum and her (currently) 5 years of photographing him mostly in recent times, with a 4x5 camera...

#19 An Odyssey with John Boyce (Mr De Vere)   Just Simon and Andrew “live in the studio” this week with a recorded interview that Andrew did with John Boyce owner of Odyssey De Vere (Large format enlargers if you are unfamiliar). Despite the lack of “live” guest we still manage to ramble on for a fair while so hang in there till you get to the inaugural LFPP Outside Broadcast (OK it will get bette...

What a wonderful selection of guests we have had since we started the show, all very inspirational loads of fun. Our guest on show 18 is no exception, so if you are unfamiliar with the work of Brendan Barry then head over to his website straight away – alternatively do that later, sit back, pour a glass of something and enjoy the conversation. Just a note of caution, we had a few audio issues for...

We have been admirers of Jeff’s Graflex SLR mods for a while now, and who could fail to miss his awesome sheet film inserts for pretty much any size sheet film you could want. Jeff is the driving force behind 20th Century Camera and we were pleased to spend time with him chatting about his business and loads more. We read out emails from Joachim Gross (Sinar and cutaways in glass) and Ben Farrar w...

We are truly honoured to be joined this week by 2018 Sony Photographer Of The Year, Alys Tomlinson. Amongst many topics, Alys talks with us about her 5 year Ex-Voto project that documents landscape, people and faith from Lourdes through Ireland and Poland. We discuss the background to the project, as well as it’s ideas and thoughts it provokes.   A truly inspiring artist   Links and references ari...

Hunky Pilot, body builder and press up champion (ask Ben Horne) Alan Brock joins Simon and Andrew to chat about hiking in the far reaches of Zion National park, backpacking with an Intrepid Camera, the Darkslide Collective, Fresnel screens and lots of other stuff…..ahhhh you’ll have to listen. Oh and Simon clearly wants to get into wet mounting... (we left an outtake in the middle of recording)  ...

We have been trying to get Sandeha on the show for ages, it took a meal and a beer in a dodgy pub in Wales to finally convince him it was a good idea to come and chat with us. Andrew has known Sandeha since the days when they both hung out on the Fiim and Darkroom User (FADU) forum, this is still going strong and can be found in the link below. So sit back, close your eyes and listen to this erudi...

Amy Jasek The Texas Girl   Amy is a passionate film user, street photographer and in recent times large format photographer. Heavily influenced by her Dad from a young age and now in possession of some beautiful wooden cameras, Amy’s love of the medium shines through in our conversation.   Links and references arising from the discussions: Coming up on Saturday 28th September is World Cyanotype da...

Another zone system free show as Simon and Andrew channel their inner talk show hosts as they quiz guests who, to be frank are only on the show to sell stuff. Mercenary guests Jason Lane and Steve Lloyd are on the verge of completing “ChromaGraphica” a Kickstarter campaign for brand new, injection moulded dry plate holders. We talk to Steve about his back story and the awesome Chroma Camera that w...

FPP archivist and occasional guest joins us this week to discuss his love affair with all things wet plate. We get to question him about the process, history, materials and a bit about gear though not too much (mmm another guest we need back on). We didn’t discuss the zone system on this show so apologies to anyone out there who needed a zone system fix, you may have to wait a few shows.   Links a...

We chat this week by all-round good egg Richard Pickup Richard is a teacher, street photographer and user of an 8x10 Intrepid camera using it for, amongst other things, making portraits and contact prints. Richard has a great web site which is full of useful stuff for film enthusiasts. As he recently published a blog all about the zone system we thought it would be a good idea to spend some time t...

True to our word we get last week’s runner up on the show in the form of Greg Obst – Greg proves to be another “great value” guest leaving us both inspired fired up to get out there and make pictures. The “why” of photography is a bit of a running theme of ours and makes a refreshing change from too much “gear talk” – we love that too don’t get me wrong but what goes on in a large format photograp...

Fist fights all around as guests squared up to each other to have the honour of being on the LFPP this week. Large Format Pugilist and all round clever person Wayne Setser joined us to talk about camera movements (ably demonstrated by Andrew and a beer mat), Stairways to nowhere, the joys of Caffenol and using one film, lovely wooden cameras and lots more…oh and Simon gets to talk about lenses.  ...

We are joined this week by Ethan Moses of migraine inducing Cameradactyl camera fame. Ethan comes to talk to us about his love for LF photography, options for new starters, some stuff Andrew didn’t understand and the super awesome handheld Cameradactyl OG (Old Goat, Orange Guice, Otter gizzard…heck we forgot to ask him).    Links and references arising from the discussions: Ethan’s favourite podca...

We are joined on the show by another of Andrew’s mates (he doesn’t have many so don’t worry) the very lovely Mr Stephen Segasby.  Steve was responsible in many ways for getting Andrew into Large Format Photography and even tried to explain the Scheimpflug Principle at their first LF meet up in North Norfolk, surprisingly they remained friends.  Steve is a thoughtful and deliberate image maker who...

Andrew could hardly contain his effervescence when Mat Marrash of FPP fame agreed to come on the show, and Mat didn’t disappoint, once again we have a guest where we just need to get him back to talk more. Mat is such a generous giver of his time and knowledge and if you want to reach out to him and ask him anything to do with what we discuss on the show, or any other film / darkroom questions the...

We are joined by the nicest, sunniest and loveliest Rachel Brewster-Wright. Most will know Rachel as the nicest member of the Sunny16 Podcast and perhaps for her day job as owner of Little Vintage Photography. You may not know that Rachel has been drawn to Large Format photography for a while and now is the proud owner of two, yes two Chroma 5x4 cameras. We eventually steer Rachel around to talkin...

Our third episode in and we reach Zion ! Well our guest does…most years in fact. The super wonderful YouTube extraordinaire Ben Horne joins us for a nice long fireside chat to tell us all about his trips to Death Valley, Zion National Park and The Colorado Plateau (did we speak about that last one …mmm) So listen in as Ben shares tales of breaking cameras, rabbits pretending to me mountain lions,...

We are back with episode #2 so clearly we mean business!   Today we are joined by our good friend Graham Vasey, bearded Gentleman of the North, angler extraordinaire and who also knows a thing or two about using large format cameras.   Graham crafts wonderfully evocative images made largely within 20 miles of his home in the Durham area using a variety of older uncoated lenses mounted on a 5x4 and...

Lensless and Classic Lenses come together for episode one of a much awaited (cough) new podcast all about – you’ve guessed it Large Format Photography.  The premise is deceptively simple, Simon plays the role of eager puppy, keen to impress the leg of great Aunt Flo and Andrew plays the role of senile Uncle Bulgaria trying to answer questions and often failing miserably.  In episode #1 Simon asks...