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Ryan captures the the raw and beautiful essence of modern-day-vintage surf culture with nearly every click of the shutter. The colors, textures, light leaks and other happy accidents he gets with instant film and his Lomographic experimentation are so refreshing. His images look as though they were taken decades ago thanks in part to the nearly endless supply of vintage cars, hand-crafted boards and waves along the California coast he calls home. When you see Ryan’s work it makes you want to do two things: go surfing and shoot film.

Visit Ryan’s Sites:

Ryan’s Portfolio
Ryan’s Blog
Ryan on Twitter
Ryan on Flickr
Ryan on Facebook

Contact him for your next surf trip or adventure. He has boards and doesn’t mind a road trip.

The team at the Barcelona-based design studio Woouf! have come up with a pretty cool bean bag chair shaped like a vintage camera. At around $250 it’s a little pricey, but would be a cool addition to any photographers studio.

Via petapixel and photojoto

Here’s a short film by Maurits Reijnoudt that gives us a look behind the scenes at The Impossible Project. You know, the ones who took over where Polaroid left off and saved instant film from extinction. Enjoy!

Via Petapixel

In a time when everything is shot digitally and immediately uploaded to plethora of photo sharing sites, Lisa Elmalah takes it slow, utilizing an old 8″x10″ camera (she’s named Fitzgerald Fitzwilliam Fitzgeorge) and a nineteenth century process called wet collodion. By converting the truck of her 1996 Toyota Tercel, she was able to make a mobile darkroom capable of developing her large glass negatives on site. Her work simultaneously freezes and blurs time whilst allowing for beautiful unplanned and unpredicaable imperfections that no digital method can match.

Lisa was Miami-born-and-raised which inspired one of her biggest projects, documenting The Everglades. With the inspiration of early photographers of the American West and using similar equipment some 150-years later, she’s been able to capture and preserve the essence of a one-of-a-kind ecosystem that is rapidly losing ground to urban and agricultural use. When she’s not traveling all over the country losing herself on empty roads in search of interesting environments or musicians to shoot, she calls Brooklyn, NY home.

Visit Lisa’s Sites:
Lisa’s Portfolio
Lisa’s Blog
Lisa on Vimeo

Found with the help of the lovely @xo_azuree

Kim Ripley is a Detroit-based photographer and Jewelry maker that is becoming obsessed with collecting vintage cameras. We came across her collection and were instantly in love. Not only do we want all the cameras, we are loving how she shot each camera with a backdrop that fits its personality.

Visit Kim’s Sites:
Kim’s Etsy Store
Kim on Facebook
Kim on Twitter

Mark Tucker calls Nashville home and it’s here where he captures and chronicles the interesting people he meets with an old 1942 Graflex camera with a Polaroid back in a project called My Day With. Mark experiments with a variety of films, lenses and formats yielded a host of beautiful portraits full of texture and soul.

Contact Mark or his reps at MergeLeft today for your next editorial or portrait shoot.

Visit Mark’s Sites:
Mark’s Portfolio
Mark’s My Day with Project
Mark’s Blog

Found via @anthonyrhoades

We were excited to run across what we hoped was an actual product in production, but turns out to be an elaborate hoax. Someone really needs to make this though. Here’s what they claimed:

The RE-35 Digital cartridges would fit most of your old 35mm cameras you’ve been neglecting for years. Utilizing built-in flash memory the cartridges could save high resolution jpegs/ RAW and would be available in 4, 8, 12mp sizes. After shooting you’d be able to connect to your computer via USB.

The elaborate hoax was designed by Rogge & Pott. They created RE-35 cartridges, packaging, website,  as well as The RE-35 Tradeshow video.

Don’t get us wrong, we love film, but having a product we could use in all of our different 35mm cameras would be really cool.

Found with help from @patrickrodwell. Learned about the hoax from photography guru @jeremycowart. Thanks for crushing our dreams Jeremy.

While experiencing a particularly dreary and stormy day here in Florida, we wanted to be reenergized and excite you with some warm and inspiring work from the talented Kansas-based photographer and director Neil Krug. You may have seen some of Neil’s work transporting bands like My Chemical Romance, Ratatat, Devendra Banhart, Ladytron, Sea Wolf, The Pierces to another time and place. Neil is also probably known more now as a result of his experimentation with expired Polaroid film and running around the desert with the beautiful model Joni (Harbeck) Alexander for their popular Pulp Art Book. Neil has exhibited his work around the world and is near completion of his first feature film, Invisible Pyramid. Enjoy our sampling of Neil’s work below, if it doesn’t make you want to pickup a vintage polaroid camera and run outside, something may not be right with you.

Contact Neil today for your next adventure into the past.

Visit Neil’s Sites:
Neil’s Portfolio
Pulp Art Book
Invisible Pyramid
Neil Krug on Facebook