Traders/Exhibitors

Some of your favourite film photography brands showed off their latest products and inventions at the event! From analogue photography merchandise and accessories to film to cameras to processing chemistry and equipment to social apps, there was more than enough to keep visitors busy.

Talks, Workshops, and Photowalks

We also hosted several fabulous speakers over the two-day event who shared their stories, knowledge, personal experience and perspectives on a wide variety of topics.

Speakers across the days included:

• Michelle Parr & Neil Hibbs, Ilford Photo & Harman Lab (respectively)
• Daniel Wheeler, Make It Easy Lab Founder and Creative Practitioner
• Alex Glynn, Director | Straight 8
• Jim Mortram, Award winning social documentary photographer and creator of Small Town Inertia
• OnlyFilms Collective Representatives – Mandy Left & Alex Bridge
• Peggy Marsh – Analogue Photographer and Writer at Camera Go Camera
• Nakaash Maqsood-Hussain – Fashion and Icon Image Maker, Director and Photographer
• Emily Ryalls – Wakefield-based Artist working with Photography and Performance
• Charles Binns from The Royal Photographic Society – Analogue Group
• AI vs Analogue Pannel Discussion with Ed Wilcoxon, Naoni Davidson, and Holly Gilman

Sunny 16 Podcast also be roamed around on Sunday recording an episode live! If you haven’t listened to their brilliant podcast yet, head over here to put a few episodes in your listening queue!

Workshops

How To Develop Black & White Film at Home with Silverpan Lab

Silverpan Lab (Bristol-based) ran a workshop on both days to guide attendees through the process of developing film at home. Perfect for beginners, as well as anyone looking to refine their technique or ask questions to the experts.

Cyanotypes with Little Vintage Photography

Rachel from Little Vintage Photography led a drop-in cyanotype workshop where visitors learned about working with this medium but also made something to take home

Develop with Caffenol hosted by Leicester Lo-Fi

Leicester Lo-Fi ran a Caffenol developing workshop where visitors learned how to develop black and white film in a more sustainable way with coffee!

Photowalks

We planned a photowalk each day of the event and gave away film kindly donated to us by one of our sponsors, Kodak! Kodak be sponsored photowalks hosted by local area experts Make It Easy (Saturday) and LensFayre(Sunday) that explored Nottingham’s coolest districts.

Sponsorship

Our 2023 Community Event was Sponsored by:

Analogue Spotlight has received sponsorship for this event from The Photography Show, Analogue Wonderland, Kodak Alaris, West Yorkshire Cameras, Alfie Cameras, pixl-latr and LensFayre. Sponsorships have covered ticket processing costs, donations of gifts/discounts for ticket holders, and more.

Photo Competition

Alfie Cameras sponsored a photo competition as part of the Analogue Spotlight 2023 Event! One lucky winner took home a brand new half-frame TYCH camera. To see more information on this camera or Alfie Cameras, check out the website here: https://alfiecameras.com

Ticket Holder Raffle

Both West Yorkshire Cameras and Zone Imaging offered amazing prizes for us to giveaway! Each ticket holder was automatically be entered into the raffle.

This event was, even if we do say so ourselves, a great success and was a wonderful opportunity for the film photography community to get together, chat and meet some of the other film photographers.

Event Gallery

If you have any photos from the event you would like to share with us here, please send them via email or drive link to theanaloguespotlight@gmail.com. Thank you!

Of course, we took some photos on film too!