Sunny 16 Podcast

Ep. 367 Little China Woman

Clare, Rachel and Graeme return to talk about Clare's experiences exhibiting and giving demonstrations on photography in China as well as giving talks AND performing as her musical alter ego Mirror Gaze, Rachel has been out getting inspired by the work of Lee Miller, and Graeme got wet on a hill in Wales - business as usual all round.

We also talk about the recent Holga week which we were lucky enough to be involved in the judging of, and we discuss ways of still shooting even when the weather says stay indoors. Worth noting, Clare just listens to the weather.

Take part in the Cheap Shots Challenge! The subject for this round is Embrace the Darkness, so get out there and do that (although don't just run up and hug Justin Hawkins, he seems like he wouldn't love that). Send your entries in to : sunny16podcast@gmail.com  with the subject line "Cheap Shots Challenge"

 

Sunny 16 Discord: https://discord.gg/sYfpRcj79

Hear Clare's music here: https://sivilised.bandcamp.com/album/watch

Lee Miller Exhibition: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/lee-miller

 

 

Ep. 366 Embrace the Darkness

Hello! After an unplanned absence we're back with a wee shortie. Rachel and Graeme, faced as many of us in the Northern hemisphere are with the dark and gloomy months go through their favourite methods of keeping the photography going over even the greyest of days

 

Sunny 16 Discord: https://discord.gg/sYfpRcj79

Ep. 365 A Rambling with Hamish

Easing ourselves back into the podcasting chairs this week after a brief break we thought who better to bring on for a slightly rambling chat about the state of film photography in 2025 than the one an only Hamish Gill of 35mmc, Analogue Spotlight, Pixelatr, Omnar lenses and more fame! No one, that's who.

 

https://www.35mmc.com/

https://omnarlenses.com/

Ep. 364 The dark horse darkroom must have

This episode we're joined by the wonderful and only slightly mad genius behind all things Cameradactyl, Ethan Moses! We talk about how he's designed a complete system to allow us to shoot large format images on rolls of paper, including a full processing system to allow for easy development, even if you want to shoot colour reversal. He also explains why a 3D printer may be an increasingly valuable piece of kit for any photographer.

 

You can find all of Ethan's fantastic work here: https://www.cameradactyl.com/

Ep. 363 Not the Wedding Photographers

In this weeks episode Clare and Graeme catch up to chat about post Phoenix 2 thoughts, Clare's upcoming participation in a Photography exhibition in China, and then get into it on the subject of taking photo's at weddings when you aren't the wedding photographer, discuss camera choices and what to do and what not to do.

 

Details on Half Frame Photography day here: https://halfframeday.wordpress.com/

Utopia by Gwenno with video by Clare Marie Bailey https://youtu.be/tcj3z6Z2FHY?si=UXDyDCCJYMEi0sHd

 

Ep. 362 Guess Who's Back?

Today marks another big step in arguably one of the most important ongoing projects in the analogue photography world, Harman Technologies work to develop a high quality new colour film. The launch of Phoenix 2 is, whilst by no means the end of this journey still an exciting look at the incredible process they are making, and a fun and highly useable film itself.

 

Joining Rachel and Graeme to talk all about it, what exactly it is (and isn't), the improvements and changes over the original Phoenix film and the quirks it still has is the fabulous Michelle Parr from Harman/Ilford. We also discuss how this launch affects availability of the original Phoenix (and Red), what the next steps will be and more.

 

https://www.harmanphoto.co.uk/harman-phoenix-ii-35mm

Follow their colour film journey @harmanphoto and share your photos with #phoenixfilm2 #harmanphoenix2

 

Ep. 361 Summer in the Cities

On this weeks show Rachel and Graeme talk about the recent Big film Photowalk where they both took to the streets in their respective cities, and discuss the cameras they shot, people they met and adventures they had. Rachel is also in Liverpool at the annual Makefest, and Graeme hasn't given up on building his camera. Yet.

 

https://liverpoolmakefest.org/

https://www.littlevintagephotography.co.uk/membership/

 

Ep. 360 360 Degrees of Camera Goodness

On this episode we're joined by Steve Lloyd of Chroma Cameras, designer and builder of the broadest, most interesting and most diverse collection of analogue cameras you can buy new today to talk about some of the latest projects he's been working on, from a 35mm Point and shoot to the most compact 4x5 camera you can get!

 

Check out Chroma Cameras here: https://chroma.camera/

Ep. 359 Creative solutions for Creativity problems

In this episode Clare and Graeme catch back up to talk about Clare's recent exhibitions and her new video's for Gwenno, as well as a bit of a dive into some of the elements involved in producing them using Super 8 film.

 

They also have a chat about some of their own favourite and most used photo gear hacks/bodges for when you don't have or don't want to buy the new fancy camera gear but do want to try out a technique. 

 

If you have any good camera gear hacks, let us know at sunny16podcast@gmail.com

 

https://www.claremariebailey.com/

https://www.gwenno.info/

 

Ep. 358 Soft Backed Photobook

On this weeks show Rachel and Graeme are joined by an absolute power team of returning guests, all here to talk about the new collaborative photobook titled Opaque, from the Photozine Collective who previously produced the Lucid and Ambiguous zines. We we're lucky enough to be joined by Yant Martin-Keyte who produced and edited the book, the fabulous J M Golding of fantastic Holga photography and 127 day fame and glory, and the one and only John-Michael Mendizza of making beautiful portraits, the Lighting Lounge shows on Sunny 16 Presents and all round being a legend.

It's a fabulous collection of photography across a spectrum of subject matter and approaches from a very talented group of photographers, so go and check it, and all of them, out!

 

 

This is link to buy the zine https://ko-fi.com/s/f2b8a862c9
Collective website https://photozinecollective.wordpress.com/

https://photozinecollective.wordpress.com/yant-martin-keyte/

https://photozinecollective.wordpress.com/j-m-golding/

 

https://www.jmm-photos.com