Jonathan Jacoby

Staff Writer

Jonathan is a street and landscape photographer at heart. He has been traveling the world, photographing and documenting his experiences for more than 5 years. He is passionate writing about alternative film processes, compositional theory, and the history and development of the photographic medium.

Articles by Jonathan Jacoby

Mar 19, 2023

Jonathan Jacoby

Caffenol: A Guide to Developing B&W Film with Coffee

One of the greatest things about film photography is its friendliness toward do-it-yourself approaches. Want to hack together a working camera out of discount hardware store supplies? All the power to you! Want to shoot on art paper coated in a home-concocted emulsion, contact-printed using authentic techniques from the 1800s? Why not?

Mar 19, 2023

Mar 02, 2023

Jonathan Jacoby

Finding the Decisive Moment in Candid Street Photography

Much has been written about the concept of the "decisive moment", a notion popularized (posthumously, for the most part) by legendary candid photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Mar 02, 2023