Brian Richman

I have been taking photographs since the age ten using 120 format film cameras and then in my 20's got into 35mm film. As I now work my way through my fifth decade I am ever more aware of just how little I like the results of most digital photography, and am now trying more and more to bring the qualities of film to my photography.

Born in London, England in the same part of town as Don McCullin the photographer who is famous for having his Nikon F take a bullet from an AK47 and save his life in the Vietnam war, I now call North Texas my home.

My approach is both deliberate and opportunistic. Slow and considered as well as fast and in the moment. This complete contrast results in images that span many genres and styles: I never know when or what might happen next, it's why I always have a camera with me and why this art never ceases to amaze and astound me.

I am currently TRYING to make a web site but it keeps changing and evolving, so I have no idea what new things will be there from one week to the next.

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Lucy Wainwright

Lucy Wainwright lives in Derbyshire in the UK where she is an artist and trainee art therapist who works creatively with terminally ill people and their families. She believes powerfully in the potential of art to help us live better, more conscious lives, to make deeper, more real connections with other people, and to become fully intimate with our own true minds and hearts. She hand builds and smoke fires ceramics and takes a very large number of photographs. 

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Matthew B. Harrison

Matthew B. Harrison is a 34-year-old intellectual property attorney that also works for two media trade magazines. His primary legal focus is copyright and trademark protection for visual and audio based artists.

Harrison enjoys photography and music – specifically film and vinyl; hence the name of his website; filmandvinyl.com. 

Despite having been paid for my photography, and having a masters degree in fine art photography, Harrison does and will always consider himself an amateur. “It’s a state of mind… always learning… with realistic expectations,” says Harrison. He continues, “I share my work and my thoughts because I want to educate and inspire others. Take my ideas and run with them – just let me know what you do. I am always looking to add to my network of photographer/artists.”

My primary cameras are:
Dorothy: An Aero Liberator created by John Minnicks. It’s an almost full frame 4×5 SLR that uses an Aero Ektar lens that is calibrated for infinity. It’s the ultimate portrait camera.

Leica M240: This camera is my favorite leica in my collection. I think it’s perfect. A lot of people think the CMOS is somehow not as good – and the digital view finder / video is not the quality that Leica should be producing. The camera is as near perfection as digital will allow an analog shooter to be. Paired with a .95 Noctilux, and it too is an ultimate portrait camera.

Canon 1VHS: This is the flagship of the Canon film line. I purchased it used for half the price of last years digital rebel. To me that was shocking… but my wallet thanked me. I use this camera with a variety of manual focus lenses including the Petzval from Lomography, some modified Leica R mount and Zeiss, and one of my favorites – the Canon 50mm 1.0L.

I am also breaking in a black (re)paint Leica M3 with 50mm Leica Summicron lens. I had a chrome M3 that got busted (i.e. I burned a hole in the shutter) while in Slovakia. So I have two film bodies as I opted to keep both and just share lenses. It worked well on my trip to Bermuda – when the black m3 had high iso film (for evenings) and the chrome had low iso film (iso .6-25 – for days).

I develop most of my own film. Most of what I shoot is black and white – but I have shot and developed my own c41. I hope to expand to e-6 and to larger sizes – such as 11×14 by the end of 2016.

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Amy Jasek

I'm a photographer's daughter; I've got fixer in my blood.  

Film *is* photography for me, and I get just as much joy from it now as I did standing on a stool making prints at the age of 7. . . . yet what little I know is but the tip of the tip of the iceberg.  I am constantly learning, and constantly excited about it.

Paparazzi of the average Joe & Josephine, I love the beauty of candid moments.  I seek out quiet grace in places that are often forgotten or overlooked.  Street photography for me is a little window into the heart and soul of a place, a time, and the people in it.  

Texan, mother, lover of life.  "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end."  

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James Jasek

My photography started in 1953, at the age of 11, when my parents took the family to downtown Waco, Texas, to view the damage done by the massive tornado that hit the city killing 114 people and injuring close to one thousand. Armed with my Brownie box camera, I took the images that helped me become hooked on photography in a way that has lasted to this day. I still maintain a full working darkroom and process and print all my own work. I specialize strictly in Black and White, and although I have taken some color long ago and printed it, I have never had any real interest in that process. My photography centers around two major areas: Cave and outdoor photography, and photography of Waco, Texas, as an amateur historian of Waco's past and present.

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