Paula Smith

@paulasmith.co.uk

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London based freelance photographer working to capture life’s moments. Still crazy for #filmphotography and vintage cameras. www.paulasmith.co.uk

4 sheets of watercolour paper with cyanotype chemicals applied drying on a cardboard box.
A disassembled shutter and lens on a tray of a Yashica Minister 3 camera.
Yashica Minister iii vintage 35mm camera held in a hand.
People from behind siting down on a multicoloured squared mat. I'm focused on a woman with a rainbow wig on for a Pride event. She has a strong shadow cast on the floor.
Pride rainbow coloured bucket hat and wings hanging on a stairs newel post.
The wing of a Treecreeper bird in black and white.
Two 120 black and white negatives hang to dry on a shower screen.
A thermometer showing 24.3 degrees c in a jug of cold tap water
Bronica Sqai medium format camera pointed at a small river with a footbridge going over it.
A rope swing hanging in a woodland clearing.
A young girl types on a typewriter
A 120 negative with an area of undeveloped emulsion.
A dark bag with Paterson reels at the ready for home developing of 120 and 35mm film.
A dragonfly lands on a Holga 120n camera.
A pinhole camera pointed at an abandoned sofa chair in front of a street road sign, Forest Rise & Upper Walthamstow Road E17.
6 4x5 black and white sheets hang to dry
A stack of 4x5 film holders all exposed and waiting for development.
Rob - Portrait created from my Walthamstow Art Trail Event.
5x7 silver gelatin prints. At Paul’s (left) Brooklyn Bridge (right)
4x5 black and white portrait of a man.
Lighthouse and house with a field of beet crops in foreground
Two woman holding umbrellas walk pack an entrance to Liverpool Street Underground Station. The image is black and white and has soft edges due to Holga camera used.
A photozine called Hydrangea next to a mug of tea. The mug has cameras on it.
A portrait of a man with long hair, goatee, glasses, wearing a Zenit t-shirt arms crossed tattoos on his arms.
6 4x5 black and white sheets hang to dry on a shower screen
A blank 4x5 film sheet after development.
4x5 film holders sit on a Paterson Tank next to a Mod54. In the background an Intrepid Camera and photographs hang on a wall.
Two visitors viewing portraits in the Gallery Shed.
A traffic cone sits on the concrete divide between lanes on a bridge. There are high-rise buildings in the background.
A traffic cone stills on a concrete divide on a bridge. There is graffiti on the wall beyond and in the background a large apartment tower block and other buildings in the distance.
Mirror selfie at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
A man looks in a guide book, a woman uses her phone. in Black and white.
View across a pond in the newly opened Queen Elizabeth II Garden in Regents Park. In the background the BT Tower can be seen. The plants have taken on a purple hue due to the 35m film used.
A garden flower border mostly tulips. The colours are different hues to what you would expect due to the 35mm colour film used.
A man on a mobility scooter using one of the pathways in the Queen Elizabeth Gardens, Regents Park. He is surrounded by plants and it looks like a desert due to the film emulsion colour.
Four Allium flowers within a gravel flower border.
A mounted photograph of some boats on a pond with sky and trees reflected in the water
A couple of A5 ‘Do not bend’ envelopes sat on top of a crocheted postbox topper of a gorilla with a banana on its head.
Frame photo of a tree in the fog in the winter.
Black and white image of a broken swing in a playground.
Black and white vertical image of a worn basketball hoop with a tired looking wooden playground behind a fence. There is a metal bench with the word fuck graffitied across it and paint spread over the floor next to it.
A black and white image of a London street with a row of buildings going into the distance. In the foreground is a man walking with no top on. His t-shirt wrapped around his head. It really wasn't that hot! In the distance stands the Telecom Tower.
The internal parts of a dishwasher.
Poster promoting that I'm exhibiting in the Walthamstow Art Trail.
120 film reel on a carpet
A painted mural on the side of a building to look like toys in a victorian shop window. There is a tree on the pavement.
Promo Poster showing the photozine 'Amble: In the Forest Vol. 1'.
Doorway with # fight together signage. Two figures can be seen reflected in the glass and their shadows on the pavement.
Do not bend envelopes about to be put in a postbox. There is a crochet topper of a gorilla with a banana skin on its head.