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Photography has nothing to do with cameras. Lucas Gentry Love this one from Gentry. Yes, just forget about your cameras and bits of equipment. Just
Miyamoto is the world famous creator of Super Mario. This shoot took place in the Hotel Costes swimming pool on Rue Faubourg, Saint Honore in Paris and was a commission from Le Point Magazine. More often than not these hotels are nice, but make for boring locations for photoshoots. After scouting the hotel for some time, I decided we should shoot in the swimming pool because it had nice lighting.
Shigeru couldn’t speak a word of English, but it was just a picture piece so the words didn’t matter. I remember laughing a lot. I shot this on a big Pentax 6×7 medium format with one light at the back and asked the Le Point journalist I was with to hold the curtains together. I did have the journalist’s hand holding the curtains together in the original shot but the layout editor took it out. What a shame!
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Photography has nothing to do with cameras. Lucas Gentry Love this one from Gentry. Yes, just forget about your cameras and bits of equipment. Just
Newport ,Wales | 2089
This series looks at working life in Wales—cashiers, roofers, labourers, and men on construction sites. It was photographed on bulk-rolled Kodak Tri-X film, giving the images a gritty, tactile quality that reflects the physicality of the jobs. Shot with no frills, just available light and time spent watching, the pictures are a quiet record of labour—its gestures, its repetition, and its dignity.
Sinai,egypt | 2025
Mostafa Mansour is a documentary photographer based in Sinai, Egypt. His current work focuses on the life of Bedouin communities from the Muzeina tribe and their relationship to their environment. Mansour’s work is mainly shot on analog film in different formats. His recent short film ‘Passage’ -an experimental short documentary film- was screened at Two.Five film festival and Zawya Film Festival in Cairo.
London ,UK | 1990
In 1990, I worked on a building site near Green Park in London. Many of the men were Irish, and among the concrete gang, some spoke Gaelic as they worked. Hearing the Irish language rise above the noise of drills and steel was unexpected—an echo of home in the heart of a foreign city. These photographs capture a moment when hard labour, exile, and heritage came together in the dust and light of a changing London.
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