Sunny 16 Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

It's a summer time check in from Rachel Brewster-Wright, Clare Marie Bailey and Graeme as we head into a lovely wet bank holiday weekend.

Find workshops and all things Little Vintage Photograpy here: http://littlevintagephotography.co.uk

Get Rachels workbook here: http://littlevintagephotography.co.uk/workbook ,  Also in store at Open Eye Gallery, Real Camera Company (Liverpool & Manchester stores) and Dead Ink Bookshop, Smithdown Rd, Analogue Wonderland and the Intrepid Camera Company

Exhibitions at the Open Eye Gallery : https://openeye.org.uk/

It's what literally everyone has been waiting for, the creme de la menthe of informed opinions Rachel and Graeme making their views on the Pentax 17 known. Finally the you can all stop holding the front pages! 

Not just that, but Rachel has been inspired by a noted influencer to buy a new camera, Graeme has been shooting with a new and interesting lens, the Big Film Photowalk has happened, an insulted man has provided a new cheap shots challenge theme and Clare is at the cinema! It's all kicking off, I hope your sitting down to listen!

On this show Rachel is joined by the fabulous Billy Sanford to talk about what they've been up to over the festive period, their photography plans and hopes for 2024 and much more - there's plenty to talk about!

Get your pictures in for the Cheap Shots Challenge to [email protected]

On this weeks show we address the issue that despite backing the Agent Shadow kickstarter to get his hands on a load of 35mm film, Ade doesn't own a 35mm camera, having sold them all last year. 

His co-hosts offer a variety of suggestions for what he should buy to rectify this issue, none of which he seems convinced by, hopefully you guys can do better!

Also on this show we launch the next round of the Cheap Shots Challenge!

Send in your suggestions for Ade and your Cheap Shots pictures to: [email protected]

On this weeks show we ramble broadly on about what it's been like to start interacting with other people photographically in the wake of the first photo walk since January 2020. 

A huge shout out to everyone we met on the day, especially all the people who we failed to mention on the show - it was lovely getting to see you all/watch many of you slowly turn bright pink!

On this weeks show we're delighted to be joined by Stephen Dowling of Kosmo Foto to hear all about his new line of film, Agent Shadow, and the Kickstarter that's launching it. 

LINKS: 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kosmofoto/kosmo-foto-agent-shadow-35mm-bandw-film-and-the-36-frames

https://kosmofoto.com/

https://www.instagram.com/kosmofoto/?hl=en

http://mymatedoesart.com/

On this weeks (belated) show we hear how John's work in preparation for his collaborative exhibition is going, how Clare's work in preparation for her part in the Experimental Photography festival is proceeding, and how Graeme flooded his shed with fixer. Not everyone can be doing something great I guess. 

On top of that we have a great and thought provoking selection of emails to share with you.

Pinhole and lawn bowls event: https://www.realphotographycompany.co.uk/events-courses

Large Format Camera Store: https://www.lfcamerastore.com/

On this weeks show Graeme is chatting in person with Dave Walker, all round lovely chap and smart dude, about using modern and easily available technology to solve some of the problems facing analogue photographers and his own project attempting to re-interpret the innards of old electronics based cameras!

Find Dave on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/davethewalker80/

And his T90 project here: https://thet90project.design.blog/

On this weeks show we're joined by the mighty Mike Caputo to talk about his recently edited and published photography magazine which features a different photographer for each of the 50 US states sharing their work!

We also talk about Graeme's new enlarger, the trip he made with John to get it, and his pretty amazing Birthday camera.

Also, there was a surprise collection of listener content at the end of the show for Graeme, including a couple of very different but equally magical songs amongst many other kindnesses. A huge thank you to everyone who got in touch and sent something in, you are all far better people than we deserve to have listening!

Find Mike on Instagram @aloha_bigmike

The new zine can be seen and bought here: https://www.blurb.com/b/10703303-america-fifty-on-film

https://www.ilfordphoto.com/making-a-photobook-from-darkroom-prints/

The Birthday Song by Silence is full of birds

This week Graeme, Clare and John catch up about their analogue photographic adventures and (sometimes unnecessary!) purchases. We also take a look through a fantastic new zine from Ian Wallace (https://www.onahillroad.com/) about Paddington Train Station. Available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMgxzMInRZCR9PG2j7LdgsQ Send your behind-the-scenes email comments to: [email protected]

and John says, send your special emails to:

[email protected]