michael sturgess

Photographer. Artist. Designer.

Category: 35 mm

Wax crayons and rubbishy pictures

It’s January, a month of cold, wet and grey miserable days.Occasionally the sun appears for an all to brief moment and then it’s back to the grey. But amazingly on the 17th; sunshine for almost the whole day! I decided that this was the day to shoot some of the rolls of expired film that […]

CineStill 800T

A friend gave me a roll of CineStill 800T to shoot sometime last year. After putting it in the fridge, I then forgot that I had it. In September I went on an evening photowalk. I took along the CineStill 800T but didn’t get around to shooting it, so back in the fridge it went. […]

Shoreditch

A wander around Shoreditch, London. All text and images © Michael Sturgess 2018. All Rights Reserved. Shoreditch, London. June 2018.

St Bride’s Church

All text and images © Michael Sturgess 2018. All Rights Reserved. St Bride’s Church, City of London, London. July 2018.

Seeing double

“Seeing double” is a photo zine produced by me. A5 in size with 20 pages and only 25 printed. All the photos were taken by me using the various film cameras I own. I’m selling the zine for £5.50 (including postage UK) or £7.50 (including postage everywhere else) per copy. If you would like to […]

Wandering around

All text and images © Michael Sturgess 2018. All Rights Reserved. London, UK. February 2018.

Rugby

Rugby in Regent’s Park. All text and images © Michael Sturgess 2018. All Rights Reserved. London, UK. February 2018.

Verona – 35mm

One city, two cameras and three film stocks. All text and images © Michael Sturgess 2017. All Rights Reserved. Verona, Italy. May 2017.

West Sussex beaches

All text and images © Michael Sturgess 2017. All Rights Reserved. East Beach, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, UK. August 2017. Felpham Beach, West Sussex, UK. August 2017.

An experiment

Take one roll of Agfa Vista 200ISO (24 exposures) and shoot the first 12 exposures at 800ISO. Then shoot the remaining 12 exposures at 400ISO. Rewind the film almost all the way back into the film cassette and then respool the film backwards onto an empty film cassette and reshoot the roll at 25ISO. And […]