How to Develop Black & White Film at Home With Coffee
A step-by-step guide to Caffenol, the genius process substituting chemicals like ammonia and formaldehyde with instant coffee {read}
Midwest Modern’s Architectural Road Trip
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen Lipnik’s photography. With more than fifty thousand followers, his account, Midwest Modern, is a transportive road trip through architecture, design, and, often, time.…
Mariah Robertson’s Chemical Reactions — Art21
How does an artist come to grips with the uncontrollable? Filmed over the course of four years, artist Mariah Roberston experiments with photographic chemistry in her Brooklyn darkroom, leading to…
The South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid
In 1978, Serote and Thamsanqa (Thami) Mnyele founded the Medu Art Ensemble, an art collective that advocated for an end to the South African apartheid government through creative expression —…
Keeping ‘Insecure’ lit: HBO cinematographer Ava Berkofsky on properly lighting black faces
Any brown person who’s taken a selfie in the club can tell you cameras aren’t made for us. Yet in Insecure’s club scenes, dark-skinned protagonists like Yvonne Orji’s Molly continue…
Women Photographing Women
Feminist critic Laura Mulvey coined the term “male gaze” in 1975 to describe the ways in which women were objectified on camera when a man was behind the lens. In…