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ABOUT THIS SPACE

Lens Punk Space celebrates handmade art, photography and writing that embraces character and mood over perfection.

This space blends different ideas, media, formats, and processes - sharing work from a diverse group of artists and creators, everyone from passionate hobbyists to established professionals. It's exciting to see the range of voices and perspectives coming together in one space.

"We call it a digital scrapbook - a hybrid of digital publishing with hand craft, with the hope of building something beautiful together."

Deciding to go against the advice and make this space 100% ad-free feels like a leap of faith, but if we truly want to build something slow and considered, it must remain clutter-free.

HOW IT STARTED

Hi, I'm Dominic. My journey with image-making started in the late 90s - black and white film and pinhole work. After college I became a furniture maker, spending decades crafting bespoke pieces.

In my free time I brought those woodworking skills to camera making. Building pinhole cameras at first, then large format, and later simple lenses too. A friend saw one of my DIY lenses on a rangefinder and called me a 'lens punk.' It was a joke, but the name felt right.

Word got out. Photographers started commissioning custom cameras and lenses, which taught me that equipment can shape how we see and create.

This led to workshops and photography experience days. Watching people make cameras and experiment together reminded me why I love this work - the community, the shared learning, the hands-on craft. That's what inspired this scrapbook: a space to celebrate that same spirit of collaboration and shared vision.

WHY A SCRAPBOOK

There are many great print zines in the photography community. This project brings that same spirit to digital space - ad-free, slow, and considered.

After years of working solo, this feels like a shift toward collaboration. The scrapbook will feature many people I admire - friends, artists and writers - sharing their stories and work alongside my own.

Pages are uploaded as drafts, reviewed and edited live. It's an experiment in building something meaningful in public, one page at a time.

If you're an artist, photographer, or writer whose work tells a story, let's connect.