Ben Hutchings

I Am Martin Parr Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip with a photographer whose work has revolutionised contemporary photography.

Very very late to the Parrty on this, but if you’ve been under the same rock I have, this is well worth a watch:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Yikes. Run away I say!

For the most part I have the same experience, but I really REALLY wish more people would use hashtags like ‘uspol’ / ‘ukpol’ for selective muting. I really don’t want it here, and would like the option to mute it.

You what… 😵

A black and white film photograph of a person doing a detailed pencil drawing of a woman in a painting that’s hung on a wall at the national gallery. The image was accidentally underexposed by 2 stops (the whole roll was). Only the artist’s head and drawing pad, and part of the painting are lit enough to see details.

Two accidentally underexposed images from the National Gallery that I’m quite fond of (2/2)
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📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm
🎞️: Foma 400
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#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography

A black and white film photograph of a person studying a small painting on a wall of similarly sized paintings at the national gallery. The image was accidentally underexposed by 2 stops (the whole roll was)

Two accidentally underexposed images from the National Gallery that I’m quite fond of (1/2)
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📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm
🎞️: Foma 400
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#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography

I just tried to capture some on the way out of SPA. Way too much light pollution. Will try again at home in Lecky

a mercedes truck is driving down a road ALT: a mercedes truck is driving down a road

We’ve had this recently with road closures and terrible potholes and sinkholes around the (very rural) office.
Them: Are the roads open again or shall I work from home?
Me: *Basking in silence* yep they’re open, but you’ll need a Unimog..

Very sleepily made a handful of borderline disrespectful offers on eBay Polaroid listings late last night. Woke to find 3 accepted 😅 I feel a bit bad now!

Thank you but it’s ok I have a mate locally with one I’ll borrow. I was hoping to avoid modelling my own in the first instance. Seemed pointless making a good model when Simon Forster has that covered. But I’m starting to shift enough OM lenses that I need to print my own really.

Does anyone have a good tried and tested OM Mount rear lens cap model? The couple I’ve tied from Printables and Thingiverse are very loose and scaling isn’t turning out to be a great fix. Before I model one, I thought I’d ask… #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #3DPrinting

A black and white film photo taken inside the National Gallery in London, facing into one of the gallery connecting rooms with it’s beautiful arched and vaulted ceiling. Visitors are milling about between galleries in the foreground.

Looking up at The National Gallery
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📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm
🎞️: Foma 400
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#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography

Ah… 😊
Feels like I spent most of my young childhood in a Wimpy, good memories. Also there must be a load of Mr.Wimpy badges in my old mum’s roof.

Any examples?

Yep. Little bed of nails type things, which are actually quite relaxing to step on, unlike Lego…

A black and white film photo of several skyscrapers in London, that show external frameworks that make them resemble children’s play blocks. The buildings are clustered from the foreground fading back in tone, height and distance.

Stickle Brick Architecture, London.
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📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

Bristol’s Princes Wharf in black and white, in the rain. One of the large dock cranes looms over rails and the M-Shed buildings, as well as a few pedestrians.

Princes Wharf in the rain, Bristol.
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📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

What shall I call the section people?
• Digitalschmigital
• The Basement
• Arkham
• Cameras we can’t fit film in 😅

I’d be happy with this as a keeper if it just had some flash modes. Very pleased with the lens/results in general.

A white dog holding a ball in its mouth stood on a park bench next to its owner, whose arm is in view. It was late winter afternoon and the flash has picked out just the foreground scene. This is a black and white image on film.

I said “Can I get a picture?”
She said “Ok, as long as I’m not in it. Biscuit! Come here!”
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📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

Was that with the Quic-pic tool?

A large black dog sits next to its owner as the owner tires to shield them both with a wire umbrella. The pair sit in front of some shutters on a building. This is a black and white film photograph

Black dog
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📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

Is it the opening, again, or which bit has been a problem?

Quic Pic opener for plastic cartridges (Foma, Lomography etc) • filmcameras.uk This tool opens Lomography and Foma new-style 35mm cassettes, making processing easier, and making the cassettes available for reuse when bulk rolling and loading film.

That weird box/tray looks odd, but these ones work well I find: filmcameras.uk/product/foma...

Flic Film 135 Film Bulk Load Kit - Bristol Cameras Flic Film 135 Film Bulk Load Kit - Bristol Cameras - Established Bristol Based Camera Store - Analogue Photography Specialists

Here’s some for same new, but I get used ones from the local lab: www.bristolcameras.co.uk/product/flic...

For me it’s more about being able to load really short rolls, so even at the same cost I’d go bulk. Although, if my source of Foma/Lomo
style snap-together cassettes dries up, I might go back to reusing metal ones with taped tails.

Because it’s a stupid generalisation from the get-go and you can pretty much ignore any words that follow “men this” or “women that” 😑

…and the self-employed 😑

It’s pictures! And a location/occasion I recognise so also know the camera and date 😅

My hand holding a black unmarked reusable 35mm film cassette, in front of some developing chemicals.

I said in a #photochat that I mark all films & detail them in a notebook. I should also say that sometimes I bulkload forgotten film stocks into blank cassettes, shoot them in random cameras and then find them months later at the backs of shelves 😅
#isitpictures? 1h Stand Dev time! #FilmPhotography