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Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

"One cross in the sun, the other replies in shade — silence starts to sing" (Kodak Professional Plus-X 125)
2022.08.13

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #donskoymonastery #cross #believeinfilm #documentary #phojournalism #KodakPlusX #bnw #filmphoto #monochrome #bwfilm #bnwzone #necropolis #cemetery

“The cross rises from shadow, the sun bows to stone.”

In the Donskoy Monastery necropolis, crosses turn into a theater of light and shadow. One stands like an actor, lit by the sun and framed by darkness. Stone and light argue about eternity, while the viewer remains silent.

Technical Credits:
Location: Donskoy Monastery Necropolis, Moscow, Russia
Camera: Samsung Vega 77i QD
Film: Kodak Professional Plus-X 125 (expired December 2012)
Development: Kodak D-76
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied — raw scan)
Date: August 13, 2022
Notes: Film stored under unknown conditions for ~10 years past expiry. Results are experimental — a dialogue between time, chemistry, and chance. Grain softened, contrast reduced, tonal range subtly shifted. Each frame carries the memory of its own decay.

“Three bars! Three strikes! Three times eternity!”

In the Donskoy Monastery necropolis, crosses speak to each other. One in sunlight, the other in shadow. This Orthodox cross, with its slanted bar, seems to guard the balance between earth and sky, light and darkness.

Technical Credits:
Location: Donskoy Monastery Necropolis, Moscow, Russia
Camera: Samsung Vega 77i QD
Film: Kodak Professional Plus-X 125 (expired December 2012)
Development: Kodak D-76
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied — raw scan)
Date: August 13, 2022
Notes: Film stored under unknown conditions for ~10 years past expiry. Results are experimental — a dialogue between time, chemistry, and chance. Grain softened, contrast reduced, tonal range subtly shifted. Each frame carries the memory of its own decay.

October 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM Everybody can reply

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Scott Forgerelli

@forgerelli.bsky.social

Shelter. 2000/2001. El & Gee. New London, CT. Uncropped B&W film photo.

#shelter #shelterband #filmsnotdead #punk #hardcorepunk #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephoto #blackandwhitephotography #photography #bnw #punkrock #filmphotography #35mm #35mmfilm #photographer #filmphoto #film

October 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM Everybody can reply

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Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

"The Urn's All Ears, The Tree's Got Secrets, The Film Remembers" (Kodak Professional Plus-X 125)
2022.08.13

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #donskoymonastery #documentary #phojournalism #KodakPlusX #RussianHistory #believeinfilm #bnw #filmphoto #documentary #phojournalism #monochrome #bwfilm #bnw

“The woman weeps, the urn listens, the bricks think of something else.” (Kodak Professional Plus-X 125)

She leans on the urn, and time leans on her. This is the tomb of Vasily Dunin (1793–1812), a 19‑year‑old ensign who fell at Borodino. In the Donskoy Monastery, bronze and stone turn a personal tragedy into an eternal symbol of remembrance.
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The “Mourner” by the urn was a popular 19th‑century motif, embodying grief and loss. Bronze and stone turn a personal tragedy into an eternal symbol of remembrance.

Technical Credits:
Location: Donskoy Monastery Necropolis, Moscow, Russia
Camera: Samsung Vega 77i QD
Film: Kodak Professional Plus-X 125 (expired December 2012)
Development: Kodak D-76
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied — raw scan)
Date: August 13, 2022
Notes: Film stored under unknown conditions for ~10 years past expiry. Results are experimental — a dialogue between time, chemistry, and chance. Grain softened, contrast reduced, tonal range subtly shifted. Each frame carries the memory of its own decay.

“A tree with no branches but with secrets; marble grows while time dries out.” (Kodak Professional Plus-X 125)

Donskoy Monastery. Tomb of Vasily Karachinsky. A marble tree with severed branches — symbol of a broken line, a life cut short. Masonic undertone? Perhaps. Either way, a rare cemetery metaphor.

(In the Donskoy Monastery Necropolis stands a rare monument — a marble tree with severed branches. It marks the grave of Vasily Karachinsky (1751–1793), a Freemason and veteran of the Russo-Turkish war. A symbol of a broken line and a life cut short, it blends 19th‑century funerary fashion with the hidden codes of its age)

Technical Credits:
Location: Donskoy Monastery Necropolis, Moscow, Russia
Camera: Samsung Vega 77i QD
Film: Kodak Professional Plus-X 125 (expired December 2012)
Development: Kodak D-76
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied — raw scan)
Date: August 13, 2022
Notes: Film stored under unknown conditions for ~10 years past expiry. Results are experimental — a dialogue between time, chemistry, and chance. Grain softened, contrast reduced, tonal range subtly shifted. Each frame carries the memory of its own decay.

October 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM Everybody can reply

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Greg Juhasz

@greg-juhasz.bsky.social

The Other Side

Mamiya RZ67, Ilford FP4+

#nature #landscape #bnw #monochrome #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #film #photography #canada

Mamiya RZ67, Sekor Z 110mm f/2.8 W, 3s @ f22 on Ilford FP4+

October 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM Everybody can reply

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Justin Farrimond

@justinfarrimond.bsky.social

Urban Fairytale

justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/urb...

Once upon a time in Oban . . .

#PhotoOfTheDay #Oban #Photography #Art #Print #BnW #BelieveInFilm #Architecture #Travel #FilmIsNotDead

Black and white portrait film photo of a backstreet in Oban, Scotland, with a turreted shop building.

October 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM Everybody can reply

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Valère de Lionsac

@valere-de-lionsac.bsky.social

A secret place

#photo #photography #fineartphotography #analog #filmphotography #blackandwhite #bnw #b&w #monochrome #tinted #travelphotography #landscapephotography #landscape #suburban #nature #grass #garden #decay #armchair

Derelict suburban garden, overgrown with lush grass, with a pair of white padded armchairs for the owner's well-earned rest.

Digitally toned black and white film photograph.

October 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM Everybody can reply

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KRZYphotography

@krzyphotography.bsky.social

Old gondolas, Grand Canal, Venice. 2022.
Ilford Delta 100 Pro medium format film. #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #bnw #filmphotography #photography #analog #venice #italy @ilfordphoto.com

October 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM Everybody can reply

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FlorianKopr

@floriankopr.bsky.social

Nausicaa "Curves"
( @nausicaa_yami_ )
more:
patreon.com/FlorianKopr

#canon #canoneos #canoneos650 #bnw #blackandwhite #photography #peoplephotography #portrait #kentmerepan400 #hair #model #photoshoot #grain #blackandwhitenegative #film #analogue #filmisnotdead #35mm #35mmfilmphotography

October 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM Everybody can reply

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Dave Myles

@davemyles.bsky.social

A #film shot I took with an old #Yashica...we both had the same model. I don't think I saw her photo of me. #bnw #retrophotography #photography

October 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM Everybody can reply

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Travertin📷🍀

@travertin.bsky.social

Joliet Prison & Joliet water tower
📍Joliet, Illinois
📷Michael Goodwin
#monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2rAZj6q

Opened in 1858 and shuttered in 2002, the Illinois State Penitentiary, now known as the Old Joliet Prison Historic Site was reopened to the public in 2018, managed by the Joliet Area Historical Museum. The Prison is probably best known today for its most popular, albeit fictional inmate – “Joliet Jake” Blues from the 1980 film “The Blues Brothers.”

October 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM Everybody can reply

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Mike Rhys

@mikerhys.photo

Film Noir - Series 01
Model: Evie Kedavra
#photography #people #nudeart #artisticnude #artnude #art #fineart #erotic #eroticnude #eroticart #fineartnude #female #model #naked #nude #NSFW #woman #beauty #sensual #monochrome #bnw #bw #mikerhys

October 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM Everybody can reply

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Kirk E. Mitchell (K.EdwardMitchell Photo)

@kirkedwardmitchell.bsky.social

#palacesandgardens #facade #Grand-Place #Bruxelles #Brussels #Belgium #GroteMarkt #filmphotography #bnwfilm #analog #film #blackandwhite #monochrome #ilford #blackandwhitefilm #wanderlust #architecture #architectural #bnw #architecturephotography #eastcoastkin #westcoastkin #photography #blueskyart

October 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM Everybody can reply

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kengibsonphotography.com

@kengibsonphotography.com

Newport, Oregon. @mia_pinhole_cameras 6x6 20mm Kentmere 100.
#photography #pinholephotography #pinhole #bridge #bnw #mediumformat #filmphotography #film #filmisalive #ishootfilm #sometimesishootdigital

October 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM Everybody can reply

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Kirk E. Mitchell (K.EdwardMitchell Photo)

@kirkedwardmitchell.bsky.social

#palacesandgardens #facade #abbey #westminster #bnw #filmphotography #analog #monochrome #monochromatic #shadowcasting #shadowplay #detail #film #ilford #winter #architecturephotography #architecture #wanderlust #blackandwhitefilm #shadows #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #westcoastkin #artful

October 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM Everybody can reply

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Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

"Woman Wrapped in the Circle of Forever" (Kodak Professional Plus-X 125)
Tomb of I. A. Alekseev (1816) #donskoymonastery
2022.08.13

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #bwfilm #KodakPlusX #RussianHistory #believeinfilm #bnw #filmphoto #ClassicMono #noiretblanc #documentary #phojournalism

“She holds the cross, and we hold our breath.” (Kodak Professional Plus-X 125)

Donskoy Monastery Necropolis, 1816. Ivan Martos casts grief in bronze: a woman with a cross, a medallion with Alekseev’s face. Eternity is posing, and we’re just peeking in.
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This tomb, created by I.P. Martos in 1816, honors Ivan Alekseev (1750–1816), a State Council member. The central figure is “Faith,” holding a cross and supporting a portrait medallion — one of Martos’s first “dogmatic” memorials. The cross was stolen in the 1950s… but restorers brought it back — and even gave the statue a little “makeover.” Shot on expired Kodak Plus-X 125. Moscow, 2022. #DonskoyCemetery #RussianHistory #Classicism #FilmPhotography

“Cross! Face! Forever!” (Kodak Professional Plus-X 125)

Beneath the arches of an old Moscow monastery, a bronze woman leans on a cross—Martos’s 1816 monument to Ivan Alekseev. Pure neoclassical poetry: a grieving figure and a portrait medallion. The sorrow feels direct and distinct, like summer thunder—silent now, but alive.
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At Moscow’s Donskoy Cemetery: the tomb of Ivan Alekseev: Figure of “Faith” with a cross — symbol of belonging to the Church. Portrait medallion. The cross was stolen in the 1950s… but restorers brought it back — and even gave the statue a little “makeover.” Shot on expired Kodak Plus-X.

Technical Credits:
Location: Donskoy Monastery Necropolis, Moscow, Russia
Camera: Samsung Vega 77i QD
Film: Kodak Professional Plus-X 125 (expired December 2012)
Development: Kodak D-76
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied — raw scan)
Date: August 13, 2022
Notes: Film stored under unknown conditions for ~10 years past expiry. Results are experimental — a dialogue between time, chemistry, and chance. Grain softened, contrast reduced, tonal range subtly shifted. Each frame carries the memory of its own decay.

October 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM Everybody can reply

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Valère de Lionsac

@valere-de-lionsac.bsky.social

Mushrooms

#photo #photography #fineartphotography #analog #filmphotography #blackandwhite #bnw #b&w #monochrome #tinted #nature #fungi #mushrooms

A group of small mushrooms growing out of a weathered log.

Digitally toned black and white film photograph.

October 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM Everybody can reply

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Sean Johnston

@seanfjohnston.bsky.social

Horses, Forest of Ae.

#photography #bw #bwphotography #film #35mm #filmphotography #fineartphotography #monochrome #bnw #noiretblanc #agriculture #rural #southwest #Scotland

Close up view of three black horses in long grass.
(c) 2008 Sean F. Johnston

October 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM Everybody can reply

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Valère de Lionsac

@valere-de-lionsac.bsky.social

Italian-style garden at Pieskowa Skała castle (Poland)

#photo #photography #fineartphotography #analog #filmphotography #blackandwhite #bnw #b&w #monochrome #travelphotography #landscapephotography #landscape #nature #foliage #garden #castle #Renaissance #Poland #Polska

Italian-style geometric garden at the fortified Renaissance castle Pieskowa Skała in Poland, seen from above.

Black and white film photograph.

For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieskowa_Ska%C5%82a

October 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM Everybody can reply

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Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

"The Angels They Brought Back" (Kodak Professional Plus-X 125)
2022.08.13

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #bwfilm #KodakPlusX #HistoricMonument #MourningArt #DonskoyCemetery #RussianHistory #Classicism #believeinfilm #bnw #filmphoto #ClassicMono #noiretblanc #documentary #phojournalism

"The Angel Who Prayed for Everyone But Himself"

This angel isn’t just decoration. He’s praying. For Sofya Tutolmina (1772–1833), the senator’s wife who raised a foundling boy and left him her fortune. For her husband Ivan Vasilyevich (1760–1839). For their childless life, full of love. Tomb, 1839, sculptor I.P. Vitali. Lost in the 1920s, restored in 2019. Here he is again, in summer sun, shot on expired Kodak Plus-X 125. Moscow, 2022.

Technical Credits:
Location: Donskoy Monastery Necropolis, Moscow, Russia
Camera: Samsung Vega 77i QD
Film: Kodak Professional Plus-X 125 (expired December 2012)
Development: Kodak D-76
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied — raw scan)
Date: August 13, 2022
Notes: Film stored under unknown conditions for ~10 years past expiry. Results are experimental — a dialogue between time, chemistry, and chance. Grain softened, contrast reduced, tonal range subtly shifted. Each frame carries the memory of its own decay.

"The Weeping Cupids of the Baryshnikova Tomb"

This tomb in Moscow’s Donskoy Cemetery belongs to Elizaveta Ivanovna Baryshnikova (1772–1806) — a noblewoman, mother of 13 children (6 died in infancy), who passed away at 34, half a year after giving birth to her last child. Designed by architect N.A. Lvov: red quartzite, bronze relief with Chronos, and a marble group of two mourning cupids holding a funeral urn. The epitaph reads: “To my gentle wife and truest friend, a mother who gave her life for her children…” — a personal letter across centuries. Shot on expired Kodak Plus-X 125. Moscow, 2022.

Technical Credits:
Location: Donskoy Monastery Necropolis, Moscow, Russia
Camera: Samsung Vega 77i QD
Film: Kodak Professional Plus-X 125 (expired December 2012)
Development: Kodak D-76
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied — raw scan)
Date: August 13, 2022
Notes: Film stored under unknown conditions for ~10 years past expiry. Results are experimental — a dialogue between time, chemistry, and chance. Grain softened, contrast reduced, tonal range subtly shifted. Each frame carries the memory of its own decay.

October 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM Everybody can reply

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Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

"Patriarch Park Playoffs" (Astrum 135 Film + BNW)
Autumn vibes, two girls, one tote bag, 372 leaves, and one superhero parent multitasking like a boss.

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #streetbw #documentary #phojournalism #bnw #autumnvibes #35mm #girls #girlsbeinggirls #bwfilm #autumn

In the Patriarch’s backyard? Forget quiet prayer.
It’s game time.

Girl 1: “I got this!” (hands up like she’s catching a Hail Mary).
Girl 2: “Catch me if you can!” (mid-sprint, grinning like she just stole the last cookie).

Leaves? Not falling. They’re defensive linemen on the ground.

God’s probably watching from the bleachers.
He’s not mad. He’s just… impressed by the footwork.

And that mom in the back?
She’s got one kid jumping like a kangaroo,
and another one chilling in the stroller like a tiny CEO.
She’s calling it “No penalty.”
(Because moms always do.)

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Gear:
Camera: Canon EOS 5 — the one that still works if you yell at it nicely.
Lens: EF 28-105mm f/3.5–4.5 USM — the “I’m not fancy but I get the job done” lens.
Film: Astrum 135 Color Negative (ISO 125) — Russian film, American dreams.
Scan Magic: Converted to B&W in post — because sometimes color is just too much drama.
Date Captured: October 11, 2018 — peak leaf-crunch season.
Scanner: Noritsu LS-1100 — the machine that whispers “I see your soul… and your dust particles.

Location:
Backyard of the Patriarch’s Place — Church of the Intercession, Pokrovsky-Streshnevo, Moscow.
(Yes, that’s a real place. No, we didn’t make it up.)

Filmic Vibe:
Variations on a Theme: “...with a film across Moscow”
(Because why walk when you can roll?)

Gear:
Camera: Canon EOS 5 — the one that still works if you yell at it nicely.
Lens: EF 28-105mm f/3.5–4.5 USM — the “I’m not fancy but I get the job done” lens.
Film: Astrum 135 Color Negative (ISO 125) — Russian film, American dreams.
Scan Magic: Converted to B&W in post — because sometimes color is just too much drama.
Date Captured: October 11, 2018 — peak leaf-crunch season.
Scanner: Noritsu LS-1100 — the machine that whispers “I see your soul… and your dust particles.

October 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Scott Forgerelli

@forgerelli.bsky.social

Ressurection. 12/31/1994. Down Under. New Brunswick, NJ. Their last show. Uncropped film photo.

#filmsnotdead #punk #hardcorepunk #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephoto #blackandwhitephotography #photography #bnw #photooftheday #punkrock #filmphotography #35mm #35mmfilm #photographer #filmphoto #film

October 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM Everybody can reply

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Greg Juhasz

@greg-juhasz.bsky.social

Moody Bale

Fuji Acros II, Mamiya RZ67

#nature #landscape #bnw #monochrome #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #film #analog #photography #canada

Mamiya RZ67, Sekor Z 110mm f/2.8 W, 1/4s @ f16 on Fuji Acros II

October 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM Everybody can reply

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Scott Forgerelli

@forgerelli.bsky.social

Shelter. 2000/2001. El & Gee. New London, CT. Uncropped B&W film photo.

#shelter #shelterband #filmsnotdead #punk #hardcorepunk #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephoto #blackandwhitephotography #photography #bnw #punkrock #filmphotography #35mm #35mmfilm #photographer #filmphoto #film

October 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM Everybody can reply

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Andrew B. Barkhatov

@abbsound.bsky.social

"They Still See (The Smena Lineage)"
(Fujifilm Fuji Eterna + D76)
15/09/2018

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #bnw #believeinfilm #sovietcamera #cameragear #oldschool #vintage #vintagecamera #35mm #filmcamera #film #ClassicMono #bwfilm #noiretblanc #FujiEterna #Fujifilm

📸 "Family Portrait. From the Past into the Frame"
A group portrait of four generations of Soviet scale-focus cameras “Smena”: the first, the third, the sixth, and the especially rare ninth. These models are more than devices — they are legends of mass photography, which made image-making accessible to everyone. Focusing was always “by eye” — using the distance scale on the lens, where the photographer chose: one meter, three, five, or infinity. This was the philosophy of the Smena: trust your own vision. And though their bodies belong to the last century, they are still alive. They still shoot. And the images they’ve captured will be shown soon.

Technical Credits:
Location: Moscow, somewhere between nostalgia and bark chips
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna (exact type unknown, heavily expired
Exposure: Rated at ISO 100
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 (no corrections applied)
Date: 15 September 2018
Notes: Storage conditions of the film unknown. The results are experimental, balancing chance and chemistry.

📷 «Семейный портрет. Они всё ещё видят»
Групповой портрет четырёх поколений советских шкальных камер «Смена»: первой, третьей, шестой и особенно редкой девятой. Эти камеры — легенда массовой фотографии, сделавшая снимок доступным каждому. Их философия — фокусировка «на глазок», доверие к собственному взгляду. И хотя их корпуса принадлежат прошлому веку, они всё ещё живы. Всё ещё снимают. Кадры, сделанные ими, мы покажем позже.

📋 Технические титры

Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Fujifilm Fuji Eterna ??? expired
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000
Exposure: 100 ISO
Development: Kodak D-76, 7 minutes
Date: 15/09/2018
Location: Moscow, Москва, где-то между ностальгией и древесной щепой

October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM Everybody can reply

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Harold Johnston

@h-h-j.bsky.social

February 1965: silhouettes.

#photography #artphotography #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #fineartphotography #filmphotography #film #contrast #bnw #35mm #portrait #silhouette #Burnaby #BC #Canada

Silhouettes of two children facing each other.

October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM Everybody can reply

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