In the early days of photography, people used much simpler cameras. These cameras could “capture” images and focus their light onto light-sensitive material called photographic film. To take a picture ...

It’s solved by sourcing them second-hand from Film Rescue International, a specialist in developing expired photographic film. The stages follow the cutting of a film disc, perforating its edges ...

Oakland photographer Beatrice Thornton remembers her initial sense of wonder at the alchemy of photography the first time she developed her own black-and-white film. It was the summer after her high ...

the awkward fumbling in absolute darkness while trying to get the film loaded into the developing reel, and the tedium of getting the timing for each solution just right. This automatic film ...

Thomas Sauvin has spent nearly a decade trawling through film negatives people have thrown away. The French photography collector buys photographic negatives that are destined for the scrapyard ...