It’s quite easy to justify staying in a comfort zone once we find ourselves there, and making decisions we know have achieved great results in the past is easy to justify ...
Simon King's Posts
9 February, 2026
The Times Square New Years Eve Queue – My Final Rolls of 2025
My phone notes from this day begin “cold, minus 5, strong light” which more or less sums it up. I usually try and give myself a little more detail when possible, but...
20 January, 2026
In Terms of “Terms”, and Giving, Taking, or Harvesting a Photograph
A recent article by Tom Warland caught my eye, as it very succinctly offered thoughts from a perspective that to me seems to stand opposed to the conclusions I arrived at in my ...
26 December, 2025
Westminster Bridge Matam – My Most Divisive Photograph of 2025
There’s starting the year strong, and there’s whatever I managed to do this year, in making a photograph I was incredibly pleased with, while also incurring a conseq...
The Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre (MPSTC) in Gravesend is a surreal space. It’s a ghost town built as a backdrop for organised chaos, a stage set for practicing...
11 November, 2025
Nikonos IV-a for Documentary Photography
Sometimes I need to work on a story or story-elements that don’t occur in optimal conditions, whether that means light or access or other conditions. Weather doesn’t...
17 September, 2025
Battle of the Budgets Continued… Fomapan 200 & Kentmere 200 (35mm)
In a market where 200-speed black-and-white films are rare (SFX 200 and Rollei options aside), Fomapan 200, and now Kentmere 200 stand out as both affordable and versatile. Over...
10 September, 2025
Wider Than Wide-Angle – 15mm for Documentary Photography
I recently wrote about my use of 21mm, a lens I had used some years ago and returned to out of necessity when, while working a specific situation, my standard wide angle was not...