A personal blog by Finnish photographer Toni Saarikko covering film photography workflows, such as archiving negatives and recording exposure data, plus gear histories and cost breakdowns of film stocks. Readers get practical, detailed methods and hands-on comparisons drawn from the author's own experience.
Website: https://blog.ihku.net/
A photography teacher writes personal, literary essays on photography, including a two-part response to Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel The School of Night and notes on his forthcoming lexicon of photography terms. Readers get reflective writing that links photography education, books and the history of words.
Each issue pairs a historic postcard with a present-day recreation photo to explore a building, monument or artwork and the history behind it. It covers modernist architecture, public monuments and urban history with detailed context on architects, patrons and artists.
Histrospect is a reader-supported history newsletter with close readings of historical photographs and archival records, such as the Brandt Warsaw kneeling image and the Che Guevara execution and body-disposal story. Each issue examines how images and documents were made, framed and used as evidence.
A personal blog-style newsletter mixing first-person travel writing and photography from rural Vietnam with detailed investigations of Chinese porcelain bought at auction and from collectors. Readers get close observation and worked examples of how to test an attribution using marks, measurements, magnification and UV light.
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