“My name is Erik Mathy, and I've been obsessed with photography since my Mom handed me her Pentax K1000 when I was 17.
While I do own a digital camera or two, traditional methods are much more exciting to me from both an artistic and personal satisfaction standpoint. There is something about combining vision with hands on techniques and then being able to hold the end result up to the light that is incredibly satisfying”.
 
Well here is a show that didn’t go as planned, none the worse for that but it means we have to have pt 2 to discuss Eric’s “Ride Slow, Take Photos” trip and film, his passion for making lenses and other projects.
 
This show is a bit sweary as Simon could not find his bleeper...
 
For this show……. Well I’ll list as many links as I can remember.
 
Things we chatted about on the show:
 
OK so we didn’t get on to this but here is a link to the article in AF magazine (get it if you don’t already) discussing Rides Slow and Take Photos.
https://www.analogforevermagazine.com/features-interviews/film-review-ride-slow-take-pictures?fbclid=IwAR2EPCPIhFtwFzulEit7Jy-D2Qd7Ws3tnGSLIb3trteOZcprh_f1sTJqjNU
 
Eric hinted at his passion for cycling which forms the means of transport on his “Ride Slow, Take Photos” epic journey. Check out ands subscribe to this blog which has some wonderful photo journalism by a talented team including Erik with some home made lenses.
 https://element.ly/2020/04/echos-of-futures-past-part-i-nancy-chipukites-darrell-stiles/
 
Erik mentioned documentary photographer Eugene Richards and gave us a link (I’m sure I must have been aware of his work but couldn’t put a name to the images).
https://eugenerichards.com/?fbclid=IwAR3seIJwcCtJzhWeja0vGYkNI1tzihyDKxBLs7tzYa-jLgCGfeZK3_kTXrY
 
And a Vimeo clip.
https://vimeo.com/75177919?fbclid=IwAR2TXU2dTYLfVpRnHQbPg91kezqOkUmBNWleh4-ITJOJWM-6pWIqbqiFuCo
 
And a thoughtful YouTube video interviewing Eugene Richards worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAwV09XgFzo&fbclid=IwAR04xERC5BtJGT5jwlf1mpKtKU2RAwmSwmtTewQWUaVU-agpaHMwtt02EdM
 
Post Podcast Erik also recommended the work of James Fee.
https://www.google.com/search?q=james+fee+photographs&safe=active&rlz=1C1GCEB_enGB918GB918&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizqIT1io7sAhVDWxUIHeFgBwgQ_AUoAXoECBYQAw&biw=1280&bih=610
 
Kelly-Shane Fuller I this is interesting…..
https://emulsive.org/articles/darkroom/developing-film/they-took-my-kodachrome-away-so-i-brought-it-back
 
And his IG.
https://www.instagram.com/piratelogystudios/?hl=en
 
Making colour images by filtering through separate filters and recombining came up in this part of the discussion. Andrew remembered a discussion in the early days of the Homemade Camera Podcast. Cant remember the episode but if you don’t already listen its great!
 http://homemadecamera.com/
 
Fred at SurplusShed.com can get you ANY lens element and more. He sounds amazing.
https://www.surplusshed.com/
 
Sunny16 presents gets another mention, mainly because Simon was on the show with Steve from Chroma Camera.
https://sunny16presents.podbean.com/
 
https://chroma.camera/
Andrew got excited when Erik gave a shout out to Glass Key Photo in SF – Heather Polley took him there a few years ago at the start of his 50th year USA road trip.
http://www.glasskeyphoto.com/#glass-key-photo
 
And Bay Area Looking Glass Photo.
https://www.lookingglassphoto.com/
 
Andrew mentioned former guest Ben Horne’s recent video on 8x10 focus stacking….. have your mind blown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFHVPvnH5c
 
Eastman Kodak House and Rochester.
https://www.eastman.org/
 
A great source for quality and reasonably prices LF focus screens.
Look for Ebay seller in Lithuania Virgisst.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4x5-Ground-Glass-Focusing-Screen-for-Large-Format-Camera/283835190541?hash=item4215e54d0d:g:d00AAOxycD9TQ~XM
 
Oh and Huckleberry bikes!
https://www.huckleberrybikes.com/
 
Erik’s links
A not updated website.
https://www.erikmathy.com/about
 
IG probably best for all things inclu