The Lensless and Lo-Fi Podcast

John and I first became aware of Bostonian Lisa Tang Liu from her entry into the 2025 pinhole category of Holga week where we awarded her an honourable mention, though it was hard to choose between all three entries.Lisa is a photography based mixed media artist and we spend time exploring in particular her body of work called "Self Reconstructed"

We finally have enough email correspondence to read out on a show and take a bit of a dive into our Flickr group.

George Griffin aka Flaneur on the streets, joins john and Andrew to chat about "The magnificent 7" - cemerteries in London, New Jersey Pinhole Club, Sprockets, Holga week, WWPD 2026 and much more....

Another varied conversation around lensless and lofi photography but as ever we deviate down other one way streets, often against the flow of traffic.

Andrew and John chat with Steve Starr aka @Stigofthedump on Bluesky and Instagram.Andrew and Steve have known each other since well before Covid and its his recent Lensless and Lo-Fi epiphany which has led him to the guest list.Steve hosts regular "Mersey Meet ups" , is a vocal advocate for photographing what you know and is an all round man of the people.

Although a recent film and pinhole convert Monika has surely embraced it with a lovely eye for composition.We look forward to seeing more of her work in the Lensless and Lo-Fi Podcast Facebook Group.

The lovely Steve Lloyd of Chroma Camera has launched a new full and half frame camera based aeound a two element lens designed by the equally lovely Jason Lane - here all about it here.

Dave joins us to chat about his year long focus on Holga Photography which you can read about in his blog "Daves Place".In 2026 he and a few friends en=mbark on a similar challenge using pinhole cameras.We talk about ideas, techinque, favourate developers, pano photograaphy and more.

You can view all the images that John and Andrew speak about here https://holgaweek.com/2025/?cat=PinholeWe narrowed our shortlist to 6 images and from there chose the winner and so called honorable mention(s) - we chose two as we couldnt agree on one.Shortlisted were:"30 minutes of my afternoon" by Kaz Handley "Frantic" by Lisa Tang Liu (Honorable mention)"Edge of the Abyss" by Elizabeth Rangel (Winner)"Maple Syrup" by Daniel Rock"The Lost City" by Jonathan Boarini"Self Portrait in Arles" by Diana Olifirova (Honorable mention)

You can listen to Lorraine in show 14 and 100 of the old Lensless Podcast, but here on the new platform we catch up with Lorraine, last year's Holga Week winner for the pinhole category.Colour in photography, Lomo's new MCA, the LCA Wide, 120 LCA, new Lucky film, Lorraine's poetry and more.....

Andrew met Tony back in 2012 at the second of the FPP London meetups so it's wonderful to finally get back in touch for this brief chat, to be honest we could have gone on for hours as is the case with many of our guests.Tony has a monthly column in the Amateur Photographer and guesses he has well over 500 cameras, many lofi and cheap.You can find Tony on Instagram under his name and PhoTony on the Flickr....

Becky Ramotowski (aka Astro Beck) joins John and Andrew for what has turned into a two part show. Becky took time out of her road trip for this recording and at about 30mins in we lost her - so once she's back home we will re connect and continue the conversation.Topics for this show includedThe serendipity of double exposuresLooking at imagesPhoto books, Americana and Stephen Shore

Andrew and John are joined by creator and editor of the excellent publication Obscura Craft Magazine Thomad Mead.We chat about his background, his analogue photography passion and how he came to realise this monthly publication.

Holga lovers and Instagram users willlikely be familiar with the Daily Holga, each day Holga artist photographersare featured and the styling of the site and the presentation is eye catchingto say the least. To say Alec is obsessed with Holgas is,probably putting it mildly……

I first met Yant on a photowalk a coupleof years back and we regularly interact on the excellent Bluesky platform.  Although relatively new to the world ofpinhole and lo-fi photography this hasn’t stopped him from diving in with anexhibition of his pinhole work at the barbican Library and a zine to accompanyit. We needed to record a second show to chatabout things we forgot to last time on show 8. 

Yant joins us for a romp around his world of pinhole, LCA and half frame - who cares if they arent all strictly lo-fi.....but they could be right?

Author, teacher, darkroom printer and Holga super evangelist Michelle Bates chats to John and Andrew about the joy of using plastic cameras.

Nick Dvoracek, his Son Andy and Justin Quinnell join Andrew in the run up to Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day to remind us all why they love pinhole photography so much.

As we continue to put out a show each Month (mostly) we were pleased to kick off the new Month with Tanya Kreil.Tanya lives in the deep countryside of Germany with "her husband, kids, a cigarette machine and a defibrillator" - and is surrounded by cows, just as well aas they are an on going obsession for pinhole and holga photography.

A last minute change of plans as we had to reschedule the planned guest to next Month. But, a good opportunity for a catch up with what we've been up to, looking ahead to travel plans and worrying about camera and film choice. Travelling through airports - you know.... A brief look at some of the posts in the FB group that have caught our eye.

John and Andrew team up with part time co-host Mr Holga to look back at Holga Week 2024. We spend some time talking about Holgas and the different choices open to those new to this particular camera before launching into a review of the category winners and runners up.

John and Andrew are joined on the show by Neal Dorman. Neal lives in Northern Ireland and has a background in press photography. Now his love of pinhole and Holga photography in and around his beautiful town and countryside continues to fuel his passion for the silver image. We discuss what happens if and when our enthusiasm for photography wanes, visualisation (pre and post), the use of darkroom or light room to fully realise the vision, plug ins!, getting exposure right with super wide pinhole cameras and more......

Andrew and John kick off show 1 of the podcast (which is really show 144, see Lensless Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lensless-podcast/id1361245677) Joined on this debut show by Daniel Rock who uses various pinhole and lo-fi cameras. You can see Daniel's work on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/people/rockpowered/ Why not join in the fun at our Facebook group where you can also read the full shownotes. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2099435647002474/