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Four Modern Analog Film Photographers With Inspiring Work

Chris Gampat
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02/07/2017
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Analog photography is back and here to stay. Though that isn’t to discredit what digital photography is all about, there’s a special Je Ne Sais Quoi about analog photography that involves the process and the more personal nature involved with being in the zone and the moment at all times. To get even more photographers excited about analog, we’re putting together a special zine later on this year which we’re trying to Kickstart. You can support it here and check out the work of four of the photographers who will be showcased.

Daniel Zvereff

Daniel Zvereff and I met years ago outside of a photo lab as we were getting our film processed. His work is simply incredible and there isn’t a whole lot else that can be said about it. He’s been working on certain projects for a while including the Introspective photo project being shot on Aerochrome which you see above. We’ve featured lots of his projects including:

Dan does commercial and editorial work in addition to personal documentary/fine art photography. He’s a serious artist first and a marketer second. He’s an obvious choice for our zine.

Anastasia Egonyan

Anastasia Egonyan has a body of portrait photography that has rightfully earned her a spot on some of our favorite portrait photographers who shoot analog. Part of this has to do with her drive to achieve better photos despite being very sick at one point. In one of our interviews we state:

“But what’s even more interesting about her is her struggle with epilepsy. “Once I had to make a choice – either I want to live with no seizures at all and take medications, but never work in the desired field or have no treatment at all and learn to cope with the illness by myself, but instead have a possibility to do what I love and work hard on my dreams.” She chose the last option.”

These days, Anastasia is running Licorne Magazine and she still shoots a lot of film. She loves medium format and has loads of work that earn her a top spot in the zine for obvious reasons.

Simon Chetrit

Simon Chetrit is an NYC based photojournalist, fashion photographer and portrait photographer who has been shooting for a really long time. If you’ve been on Flickr for a while, then you probably know his work at Dorkasaurus Rex. He’s a Pentax 67 II user and loves the format for much of his work–in fact he also started shooting partially to conquer shyness.

Without Simon, I honestly wouldn’t have wanted to get into Fujifilm Natura 1600 film and he’s also been a guest reviewer on one of our reviews.

Simon’s work is incredible, and he’s learned how to become an even better editor. If you’re young millenial a photographer out there that shoots with film, Simon’s stories will inspire you when the zine comes out later this year.

Lester Jones

Photographer Lester Jones has a blog on the Vice Network called I Digg Your Sole Man, and he’s been a big lover of street culture in Australia. He’s shot for Vans before, but the series that you’ll be most familiar with is Their Grind, Not Mine. In this series he photographs commuters in their daily lives; and much of his street photography work tends to look like this.

Maybe that’s why he’s also in our list of the most inspirational street photographers for last year. Again, he’s a great choice for our zine.

To help us make our zine possible, please donate to our Kickstarter.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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