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Michael Berger
@andwithout.bsky.social
Photography & graphic design, with some architecture and philosophy sprinkled in. Images mostly on film, mostly 120 and 4x5.
Architecture and photography have a really nice little love affair going. Both applied arts help each other shine.

EPFL Campus built by SANAA in Lausanne, Switzerland – on Delta 400 film from @ilfordphoto.com
#believeinfilm #architecture #filmphotography #Hasselblad
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It sounds counterintuitive, to me at least, that a lot of time & money has been spent to make life have less friction. Yet I use old (read: cumbersome) tech to take my Images.
My mind wants to know, this is why I wrote a blog post. www.andwithout.ch/thoughts
#filmphotography
#believeinfim
#thougts
June 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
First time working with Instax, but hey, why not work with the big gun—AKA my Chamonix 4x5 with @lomography.com's Graflock back. I struggled with the dynamic range, but other than that it was fun creating my own postcards.

#instax
#filmphotography
#largeformat
May 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The older I get, the stricter I become with my work. Clearer lines, simpler compositions, thigther rules. It also means—less images taken overall.

Solves the problem of expensive film 😂

#ilforddelta @ilfordphoto.com
Self developed in XT-3
March 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Working through some older analog work today, more semiotics than semantics, but I like the rendering of @ilfordphoto.com Delta 400 film on medium format film.

#filmisalive #believeinfilm #filmphotography
March 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
My #believeinfilm wrapped would be:

1. Hasselblad 500cm
2. Ilford Delta 400
3. Urban landscapes
4. Adox XT-3 (developer 😂)
As it is Spotify wrapped day today.

If there was a #BelieveInFilm wrapped what would be your likely most used film, camera and subject matter

Mine:
1. Olympus OM1n
2. Kentmere Pan 400
3. Cars
December 4, 2024 at 10:26 PM
This is a knife workers used to cut the blocks of film emulsion in the former #Agfaphoto and #orwo film production plant in Wolfen. Reminding me of the very physical nature of film.

How film is made
#35mm | #Ilford Delta | #Kodak Xtol | #Nikon FM2
#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#analogphotography
November 21, 2024 at 9:18 PM
WE CANNOT
BECOME WHAT
WE WANT
BY REMAINING
WHAT WE ARE.

This quote by Max De Pree makes me think. It puts the question on its head of what we want to achieve by asking who we need to be to achieve something.

#thougts
#fimphotography
#Believeinfilm
#Delta400 by @ilfordphoto.com
#NikonFM2
November 16, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Japen Camera Hunter is here as well. Better and better I tell you.
November 15, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Where were you the last time you shot you camera for the whole day? I bet it was while you were traveling—either shooting landscapes, street or urban photography—being in other places makes it easier to focus on your art somehow.
#mediumformat
#filmphotography
#filmisalive
November 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM
It gets better and better here on BlueSky for analog photographers 😍🚀
#filmisalive
#filmisnotdead
#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
#analog
Good morning BlueSky. We have seen a lot of the film photography community starting to move and have set up this account along with the
@harmanphoto.bsky.social
account in readiness. We won't be able to be hugely active initially but will will check in at least once a week.
November 13, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Out of the ordinary environment, at least for me. Working on my horizon as a photographer. Struggling.
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #largeformatphotography
#dolomites
November 8, 2024 at 6:21 PM
How beautiful needs our world to be?
In art the concept of beauty only plays a minor role, more important seems context, meaning and the ability to challenge world views. Maybe our everyday needs these elements too. Can we learn from art? And yes, save Brutalism!
#filmphotography
#brutalism
#art
October 31, 2024 at 8:46 PM
There is a time and place to imitate grand artists. To learn, to understand, to honor. This is a classic for sure – I could not resist unpacking my large format Chamonix 4x5 for it and shoot it on Adox CHS100.
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #largeformatphotography #adox #4x5
October 30, 2024 at 8:58 PM
The most retrofuturistic thing in the world: electricity and telegraph poles were the start of the future we have now, yet it seems nothing looks as outdated as them.
#filmphotography #35mm #beliveinfilm #ilford Delta 100
October 29, 2024 at 9:37 PM
The kid, happy as peach, running through my shot. If dogs ran free!
#believeinfilm #35mm #filmphotography
Ilford delta 100, adox xt-3
October 28, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Well hello, first post on bsky. This is a series I did from my home town Berne. #filmphotography #believeinfilm

instagram.com/p/C0HonL-ItXw/
December 10, 2023 at 6:55 PM