Feature Stories
Stephan Small
The Manchester-based photographer has been an artist-to-watch on the Flash Punk radar for a while. We talk about working with models, growth as an artist, and how bringing a business mindset to his creative work has kept him grounded.
Rebirth
Lacy Wood’s new series “Rebirth” is a timely meditation on the places we’ve called home this past year, and the best versions of ourselves that we’ve endeavored to protect.
I Like it Better That Way
Mexico City-based photographer Jorge Torres embraces perfection in imperfection with this evocative 35mm film photo series featuring models Lairan and Fernanda Romero.
Lou Noble
A conversation with TPJ’s Lou Noble about building trust as a portrait photographer, learning from your network, and what it all has in common with talking to people at parties.
What do You Seek?
With its warmth and candor, this hauntingly beautiful sitting with Amalia photographed by Riccardo Sirica transports us to a space where grace and strength reign. Shot on some of the last extant Fuji 3000b pull-apart instant film stock. (NSFW)
It’s All Happening
From balls-out masculine snapshots to soft feminine portraits tinged with a good-natured voyeurism, Brook McKeon’s analog photography is bristling with a sense of unabashed youth and the mystery and longing of growing up. We’re thrilled to feature this new series of his work deeply anchored in his native Eastern Australia.
A Sensual Life
Francesca McConnell is a film photographer who splits her time between Barcelona and Denver. She describes her approach as intimate portraiture, and her subjects range from still life, travel, boudoir, and candids. In this series, her warm-toned personal photography speaks a sense of playfulness and adventure. (NSFW)
One of the Few Humans I’ve Seen
With layered landscapes and offbeat intimate portraits, Justin Rosenberg's photography is a clinic in photographing with heart and a generous appreciation for wonders large and small. We're in love with this series of Justin’s recent work with producer, actor, and singer Emily Kincaid.
Omer Hecht: Like Black Magic
Omer Hecht is helping shape the brave new world of the post-digital analog film market with CatLABS, one of the few remaining dealers of traditional photographic lab gear and large format camera equipment.
Analog Bridges
Dubai-based Altamash Urooj explores distance and proximity with this stunning series of analog portraits made over Zoom and Facetime.
The Queen of da Souf’s “On God”
Flash Punk goes behind-the-scenes with photographer James Baxter on the set of Mulatto’s “On God,” directed and edited by Cole Bennett, and featuring dazzling appearances by Coi Leray and Mariah the Scientist.
Alfredo Cristinziano
After twelve years making photos strictly for himself, fine art portrait photographer Alfredo Cristinziano is moving to Patreon. He’s damn excited about it, and we are too. (NSFW)
Maggie Morris’s Passion for Thrift Runs Deep
Buena Onda translates to “good vibes,” and it’s an apt name for Maggie Morris’s new venture, which aims to ease the thrift-curious among us into the world of second-hand fashion.
I Like the Way You Dance
The version of Philadelphia that Jesse Todd walks is a place out of time. It’s a lived-in city—worn thin in places—but well loved. This photo series finds the photographer exploring a corner of that city with the adept model and stylist Kiera Thompson.
Hot Town, Summer in the City
Berlin photographer Marco Lehmbeck and I started speaking some time ago about about this analog series featuring model Summer, but our plans were waylaid when, while on Holiday in Belarus, the photographer was caught in the political upheaval…