The Studio Ninja Team

Studio Ninja was launched summer 2010 by photographers Mike Greenhow and Kris Lamba. The aim was to create a source of useful information for anyone interested in photography, with a strong emphasis on real world techniques, unusual equipment reviews and breaking news.

Kris and Mike met many moons ago whilst playing in a band together, they then went on to open Waterloo Street Studios in Brighton, UK, where they can be found shooting anything from the latest Kawasaki to a dog in a tuxedo. Kris is a Landscape photographer at heart, but has become well respected as a commercial and architectural photographer. He favours large format technical cameras with complex and precise movements but has more recently been experimenting with the iphone Hipsamatic app and the Richo GX200. Mike shoots primarily with a Linhof or Graflex 4×5 for landscapes, architecture and still life but is equally comfortable with the Canon 5DmkII in the studio or his trusty Fujica rangefinder for street and travel photography. He has recently been testing the Adox line of black and white film.

Studio Ninja is still in its infancy, so please comment or email with suggestions about what to include on the site. We’re pretty much open to any good ideas and unique concepts.

News

Vivian Maier’s Chicago Street Photography

Well in our absence we missed out on quite a few big stories in the photography world, but one of the most amazing was that of the discovery of Chicago nanny Vivian Maier’s amazing collection of street photographs. While researching a book on the history of Chicago, a real estate agent bought at auction a [...]

60′s Photographer Peter Greenhill – A Retrospective

Having photographed in the Advertising Business from 1966 until the beginning of the 1970′s Peter Greenhill’s photography evokes a classic image of 60′s culture and fashion. Celebrated models that Peter photographed include Joanna Lumley, Marisa Berenson, Celia Hammond, Sandra Paul who became Mrs Michael Howard, Shakira Baksh who married Michael Caine, Paulene Stone who married [...]

Missing In Action

We’ve not exactly been prolific with the updates these last few months, but there’s good reasoning behind the chaos! Opening on the 10th of March this year is our brand new studio in Waterloo Street, Hove. We took over the lease a few months ago and have been working hard to get things ready since [...]

Leica M9 Titanium: Don’t take pictures, just frame the camera instead

Well if you thought that Leicas were expensive already, you probably won’t be among the 500 people worldwide to buy the new special edition titanium M9 priced at a tempting £19,800. From Leica’s website: The exclusive special edition Leica M9 “Titanium” is the result of a collaboration with Walter de’Silva, the prominent automobile designer. Responsible [...]

Photography Book Now Competition 2010 – Winners Announced

Whenever I walk around a place which has an important historical past I always find myself trying to imagine it as it once was. Walking through tranquil fields where centuries ago a fierce battle had taken place, or around a long besieged castle that has fallen into disrepair, it’s hard to relate these places we [...]