award-winning Fujifilm Life As You See It 2025, by fabienb, cover
19th June 2025

Keep 'Em Coming: Fujifilm "Life As You See It" 2025 Award

The Fujifilm “Life As You See It” competition has just ended. Coincidentally, it showed that life has a funny way of coming full circle. There I was, scrolling through my emails last week, when I spotted something that made me do a proper double-take. An email from Fujifilm House of Photography with a subject line that made my heart skip: “Congratulations – Life As You See It 2025 Competition Results”. Second place....

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Istanbul Travel Guide and Photo Zine preview print mockup
8th May 2025

The Wait is Finally Over: My Istanbul Travel Guide and Photobook has its Hardcover Version

From Pixels to Paper: The Istanbul Photo Book Journey Have you ever noticed how something digital—no matter how brilliant—sometimes just feels a bit incomplete? Like there’s a final step in the creative process that remains untaken? That’s been my relationship with my Istanbul photo book for months now. The digital zine has connected with so many of you (thank you for the lovely messages), but there was always that lingering question in...

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Grand Bazaar, Istanbul, Photographing the World episode 2
3rd December 2023

Street Photography in Istanbul | Photographing the World Ep.2

I have finally managed to assemble the hours and hours of footage filmed in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul and the surrounding area. Finding my way through it, along the narrow alleyways of the open-air markets, on the way to the Egyptian Bazaar, and more. The “Photographing The World” Series continues, and we now wander in Fatih, through the Grand Bazaar and the huge market area! The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is...

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The end of Street Photography?
5th October 2023

New Laws Mean The End Of Street Photography?

Despite the drama in many debates and even in some parts of the video below, I’m not entirely sure this could be the end of Street Photography… But maybe it is? These days, everyone is focused on AI and all that auto-generated images can do to disrupt the industry. But at a much higher level, governments are introducing or updating their privacy laws, tightening them to the point that Street Photography may...

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Istanbul Travel Guide and Photo Zine preview on devices
21st March 2023

Istanbul Travel Guide and Photo Zine, out now

My Istanbul travel guide and photo zine is finally out! I know I announced this long ago, when I published the first episode of the relative YouTube series. But it’s out now, and it looks gorgeous! There are more than 130 high-resolution photos spread over 150 pages in a big magazine format. All the photos come with their shooting info, so you are able to see the settings for each of them:...

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Street Photographer Of The Year 2023
27th December 2022

Street Photographer Of The Year

“Street Photographer Of The Year” for 2022. What a way to end the year! I woke up this morning and checked emails while sipping my coffee… Surprisingly, I found this totally unexpected, belated Christmas gift! For all of you in the Chicago area, my selected photo will be displayed at the Bridgeport Art Center from the 21st of July to the 1st of September, 2023. For those who cannot attend, there is...

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Samyang 12mm best lens fujifilm video review
19th October 2022

Samyang 12mm f/2 AF, Best Third-Party Lens for Fujifilm

I have always been a massive fan of the Samyang 12mm F2 lens for the Fujifilm X Series. In fact, it was actually the very first lens I purchased for my old X-T1, aside from the kit lens!It is my primary go-to lens for Astrophotography, and I use it a lot for Architecture and Landscape. It was also the main lens I used in my Fog cinematic vlog. This lens was always...

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Street Photography in Istanbul | Photographing the world Episode 1 Youtube
21st September 2022

Street Photography in Istanbul | Photographing the World Ep.1

The new “Photographing The World” Series starts here, and we kick off with Street Photography in Istanbul! This video was long due, but I came back from Istanbul with 6+ hours of footage and almost 1Tb of photos… All over the place. I was to give you a full-length docu-vlog of about 20-25 minutes. But then I thought a small pill format would have been much more palatable (pun intended). So here...

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new Fujfiilm 56mm First Impressions video street photography
9th September 2022

The NEW Fujifilm 56mm F/1.2 Hands-On First Impressions

The brand new Fujifilm 56mm R WR F1.2 Mark II is finally here! It was just announced in the last Fujifilm X-Summit (and Fujikina) in New York City together with the 40MP X-H2 camera. And I can now present the lens to you in my latest video… I had the chance to play with the new Fujifilm 56mm for a few days, before launch. So, I took it to the streets of...

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tips to photograph strangers | street photography Istanbul
14th April 2022

5 Tips To Photograph Strangers - Street Portraits in Istanbul

If you follow my Stories on Instagram, you know that I just returned from my trip to Istanbul… And I immediately felt the need to publish these tips for photographing strangers! This trip was a game-changer for my Street Photography, and here I’m sharing all I did to capture street portraits. In these past days in Istanbul, my Street Photography was pulled to a completely different place. This beautiful city has had...

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Day to night walk in London street photography Fujifilm low light sunset
14th December 2021

A Day To Night Walk In London (Photos and Video)

Welcome back to another cinematic vlog in the streets, this time for a day to night walk in London. Aside of going out for photography, to me walking is kind of a therapeutical exercise: whenever I feel down or lacking inspiration I just hit the streets. It clears my mind. And if I'm looking for inspiration this clicks briefly after I start taking photos...

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Street Photography Workshops in Florence December 2021
1st December 2021

Street Photography Workshops in Florence this December

The time has come for some Street Photography workshops in Florence! When I went in the Summer, I was focused on creating content for Fujifilm and couldn’t find the time to host them. But I’m back for Xmas now, and now I have a chance to host you at my workshops. There will be 2 workshops, one at night and one all day, and they will be lots of fun. If you...

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