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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. Starting to dabble in painting and alternative processes.

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Paula Smith @paulasmith.co.uk · Nov 19
Hello!! So many new followers, thank you for connecting. You can read more about me and my #filmphotography love here...

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In Focus - Paula Smith
This week's In Focus interview is with Paula Smith taking us to 53 photographer interview since this series began.
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Building on my series of urban cyanotype prints… not to everyone’s taste. These Soho scenes are long gone and it felt right in cyanotype for some reason.

#cyanotype #altprocess #believeinfilm
September 22, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Excited to be preparing new cyanotypes for Yes! Art. 27th Sept 26, Walthamstow, London.

#cyanotype #believeinfilm
A table covered in mount cutting equipment and a cyanotype print ready for mounting.
September 21, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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Is that a barbell? More from the Worldwide Half Frame Photography Day London Photowalk organised by
@donkeyislandpress.co.uk

📷 OM Pen EEs
🎞️ Orwo UN54 100
⚗️ Rodinal 1+50 9mins

#believeinfilm #wwhfpd #halfframe #35mm
Diptych - left view towards ChristChurch, Spitalfields. Hanging from a house is a barbell (I think). Right a panelled door with tiny letter box and door knob.
September 21, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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Some half-frame kids...

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#wwhfpd #filmphotography
a selfie reflection of 3 people looking at a window in black and white. Taken on a half frame OM Pen EEs and Fomapan 100.
September 21, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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More from the Worldwide Half Frame Photography Day London Photowalk organised by
@donkeyislandpress.co.uk

📷 OM Pen EEs
🎞️ Orwo UN54 100
⚗️ Rodinal 1+50 9mins

#believeinfilm #wwhfpd #halfframe #35mm
A man sits at the top of a flight of stairs leading to a bridge over the railway. Graffitied walls and a flight of stairs looking towards.
September 21, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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I’m starting to experiment with more ‘urban’ cyanotypes prints. Thinking of presenting for sale. Would you hang this on your wall?? 🤔

#altprocess #cyanotype #filmphotography
Inkjet digital negative printed on transparent film ready for cyanotype exposure. Digital negative exposing in the sun on cyanotype covered paper. The image is of a man with headphones walking past graffiti on a window. Reads you F&cking c*nts. Drying cyanotype. The image is of a man with headphones walking past graffiti on a window. Reads you F&cking c*nts.
September 20, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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From yesterdays stroll. Looking pretty good. First time with the Adox FX 39 and Fomapan 100. Looking forward to scanning.

#wwhfpd #filmphotography
Black and white negative film hangs to dry after development.
September 20, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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In other news… I’m first prize for procrastination strikes again. 🏆Finished my 1000 piece puzzle. West end was a little trickier as I rarely walk those streets.
A completed 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle of the Atoz map of central London.
September 18, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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Amateur Photographer will be running a piece on our exhibitions with some advice from me on how to get your work displayed (for what it’s worth). Probably next month if anyone is interested. We’ve now had over 155,000 visitors to our two exhibitions since October 2023.
September 18, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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St Paul's, London looking glorious and grainy.

Taken with a Canon TX 50mm 1.8 and KikiPan 320. Developed in Bellini Euro HC 1+47 for 10mins.

#cameraphotofilm #kikipan320 #believeinfilm
Black and white view across the River Thames towards the city of London skyline and St Paul's Cathedral. Black and white view of a portion of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral looking up through a tree and part of a building.
September 17, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Three bins, a bench and a tomb. All on the wonk.

From a walk round Clerkenwell. Taken with the Ricoh 500g and Fuji200.

#filmphotography #ThursdayBins #aofoto #ECK #UrbanGaze
Three wheelie bins - blue, black and green, a bench and a tomb with a paved path in foreground and railings behind. Everything is sloped downwards towards the right which if I remember correctly is how the church gardens are as the buildings in the background are horizontal.
September 17, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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Doors and windows. More from the Worldwide Half Frame Photography Day London Photowalk organised by @donkeyislandpress.co.uk

📷 OM Pen EEs
🎞️ Orwo UN54 100
⚗️ Rodinal 1+50 9mins

#believeinfilm #wwhfpd #halfframe #35mm
Diptych of door and window details in black and white. Diptych of door and window details in black and white. Door on left has a letter box with word tradesmen printed above. Right is part of a window with tiny portraits covering the window like a screen.
September 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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THE WAIT IS NEARLY OVER! The first issue of ao, the FREE digital magazine which celebrates the aesthetic of the ordinary, will be published on Friday September 18 at 6pm.

Follow us on @aofoto.bsky.social to be first to receive the link!

#aofoto #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #photography
The very first edition of aofoto magazine. Follow us at @aofoto.bsky.social and https://aofoto.art
September 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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More from the Worldwide Half Frame Photography Day London Photowalk organised by @donkeyislandpress.co.uk

📷 OM Pen EEs
🎞️ Orwo UN54 100
⚗️ Rodinal 1+50 9mins

#believeinfilm #wwhfpd #halfframe #35mm
Black and white leaf detail of a palm tree in the sunshine. Black and white image of bicycle handlebars and bike seat chained to a lamp post. a woman cycles by a large open metal gate, peaking out on the wall behind is a mural of a woman's eye and cheek framed by flowers. A curved corner of a brick wall. Right pointing arrows have been graffitied onto the corner bricks. There is a downpipe to the left and that is covered in graffiti marks.
September 15, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Half-framers gotta half-frame. @wavesounds.bsky.social @warboyssnapper.bsky.social @emdashman.bsky.social in action.

#wwhfpd #photowalk #believeinfilm
September 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Of Friendship and Coffee

A few thoughts on friendship. If you come here just for the photos this post has just one #justsaying
Of Friendship and Coffee
A few thoughts on friendship. If you come here just for the photos this post has just one #justsaying
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September 15, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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Pulled a freshly developed roll of Fomapan 200 out of the tank and got that sinking feeling… Double exposed. 🫣 I've posted about it in my blog. 👇

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#filmphotography #doubleexposure #fomapan200
My accidental 35mm Double Exposure Roll – Paula Smith | Photography
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September 15, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Caught in the act - my footwork… 😲🤯 I never noticed I did that 😎 Thanks @wavesounds.bsky.social
September 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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A Morris and a Bentley... From the Worldwide Half Frame Photography Day London Photowalk organised by @donkeyislandpress.co.uk

📷 OM Pen EEs
🎞️ Orwo UN54 100
⚗️ Rodinal 1+50 9mins

#believeinfilm #wwhfpd #halfframe #35mm
Hood detail of an old Morris Minor. In the background is a doorstep and a bollard. Side mirror and hood detail of an old Morris Minor. Hood detail of an old Bentley.
September 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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From the Worldwide Half Frame Photography Day London Photowalk organised by @donkeyislandpress.co.uk

📷 OM Pen EEs
🎞️ Orwo UN54 100
⚗️ Rodinal 1+50 9mins

#believeinfilm #wwhfpd #halfframe #35mm
Bill board posting with graffiti over the top saying Curfew. Underneath hanging above a railing are some abandoned shoes (like plimsols). Black and white image of a railing covering a former window boarded up and covered in graffiti. Black and white diptych. Left is view down a road tunnel with Helch graffiti on each archway. Right is part of the brick wall with more graffiti and two fence holder stands propped up against the wall.
September 11, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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From the Worldwide Half Frame Photography Day London Photowalk organised by @donkeyislandpress.co.uk

📷 OM Pen EEs
🎞️ Orwo UN54 100
⚗️ Rodinal 1+50 9mins

#believeinfilm #wwhfpd #halfframe #35mm
Two men sitting on a bench huddled over looking at their phones talking. In the background is a modern glass fronted office block and lush planting. View down some steps to a viewing area of the medieval and roman foundations of buildings. A small tree is planted and it is casting a strong shadow on the side of the wall.
September 11, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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The last time I was at Spitalfields I saw a cat being walked on a lead. This visit it's a Parrot out for its daily stroll.

From the Worldwide Half Frame Photography Day London Photowalk.

📷 OM Pen EEs
🎞️ Orwo UN54 100
⚗️ Rodinal 1+50 9mins

#believeinfilm #wwhfpd #halfframe #35mm
A black and white diptych of a parrot perched on a pet pram being pushed by a woman through Spitalfields. A black and white image of a parrot perched on a pet pram being pushed by a woman through Spitalfields.
September 10, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Such kind words from Bob & Mary Jo about my recent photozine... 💚👇👇

Copies still available if anyone is interested - purchasing from paulasmith.co.uk/shop/books/

#photozine #believeinfilm
September 10, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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From the Worldwide Half Frame Photography Day London Photowalk organised by @donkeyislandpress.co.uk

📷 OM Pen EEs
🎞️ Orwo UN54 100
⚗️ Rodinal 1+50 9mins

#believeinfilm #wwhfpd #halfframe #35mm
Black and white view between buildings on Artillery Lane, City of London. Black and white image of a wooden door within a brick building with a letter box and buzzer built into wall to the right of the door.
September 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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From the Worldwide Half Frame Photography Day London Photowalk organised by @donkeyislandpress.co.uk

📷 OM Pen EEs
🎞️ Orwo UN54 100
⚗️ Rodinal 1+50 9mins

#believeinfilm #wwhfpd #halfframe #35mm
Black and white photo of lily pads floating on a shallow pool of water. Rounded pebbles can be seen below. Black and white image of four Koi fish swimming in a shallow pool of water. Round pebbles form the bottom of the pool.
September 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM