Summer 2023 with a new film stock
This past summer I had the chance to visit family in the US. I was able to spend some quality time, though never enough, with my parents and grandparents in the...
Author: how_sven
Cold Hands: The Lost Gloves of Helsinki
I’ve lived in Istanbul for some years now, and while I’ve come to realize nothing about this city is normal, I’ve gotten used to its madness. According to censu...
Film Photography Adventures in Turkey: Bike Camping in Trakya part III
Day Three At dawn as I watched the sky slowly lighten and the sun rise over the fields I resigned myself to starting another day. I had heard from Lisa, who had...
Film Photography Adventures in Turkey: Bike Camping in Trakya part II
Day Two I awoke groggily at dawn and watched the sunrise from my tent. I consulted my hand-drawn map to confirm that I needed to just follow the coastal road I&...
Film Photography Adventures in Turkey: Bike Camping in Trakya (Thrace) Part I
Introduction Back in July I went for a long bike ride and camping adventure. During the lockdown days it was nice to think about going away somewhere by myself ...
Summer 2019 and Adventures with a new camera: the Canon EF
When I wrote my previous reflection about a year with the Canon AE-1, I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of an upgrade. One side-effect of picking up a new hobb...
Learning Film Photography: A Year with the Canon AE-1
A year ago in July when I was back in the states, I went in to a camera shop and asked the shopkeeper for a manual camera with no automatic settings. He had two...
Dispatches from Istanbul: An Escape from the City
I recently bought an analogue camera and have been learning (slowly) to take photos. This marks my first entry in what I hope will be a continuing combination o...
Synchronous Summers: Photos and Stories
We’d just driven down scenic M-22 after camping at the Betsie River campground outside of Frankfort, Michigan. We had spent a few days in Grand Rapids before we...
Süngerci Deniz: 9. 10. ve 11. Bölümler
IX Birkaç gün sonra Kardelen arka sokaklara, Deniz’i bulmak için gitti. Deniz çok endişeliydi. “İyiyim, vallahi, ama sormak istedim, pembe sünger paket alabilir...