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Ilford PhotoMakersFriday Favourites 18th September We honestly have no idea where the weeks are disappearing to, but somehow it's Friday again! A huge thank you to everyone who has shared images with us over the last week.

September 18

Ilford PhotoMakersA Blank Wall You can learn a lot about a person through what they decide to photograph. Even more so in how they choose to photograph it.

September 2

Ilford PhotoMakersMacmillan Cancer Support Charity Walk One in five We are all familiar with the statistics that one in five of us will experience cancer in our lifetime, but we never really think that we or those close to us will be the one.

August 18

Ilford PhotoMakersFriday Favourites 14th August One of the best parts of every week is sitting down with a coffee and scrolling through your latest submissions for Friday favourites Once again you've made choosing almost impossible.

August 14

Ilford PhotoMakersFriday Favourites 07th August Whether you've been out exploring new locations, revisiting old favourites or creating work closer to home, you've given us plenty to enjoy this week.

August 7

Ilford PhotoMakersParis on film during the Olympics There is a unique kind of magic behind the Olympic Games. Perhaps it stems from the ritual of waiting.

August 5

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo