Lina Bessonova
Analog Photography
Lina Bessonova is an analog photographer, printer and educator. Coming from a background of PR and Media Communications, she committed to her passion for film and graduated with an MFA in Photography degree in 2017.
She has released two book following the major construction sites of the Principality of Monaco - Place du Casino and Hotel de Paris, published in 2021, and Mareterra sea extension, published in 2024. A book about the Japanese Garden of Monaco was published in 2025. All books were shot exclusively on medium format film.
Lina holds workshops, individual courses and guest lectures on film photography, darkroom printing and early history of photography. She also writes for >Silvergrain Classics<, an international analog photography magazine.
ARTICLES
SilverGrain Classics - Issue nr. 6 - The History Of Photographic Papers (.pdf)
SilverGrain Classics - Issue nr. 8 - A Brief History of my Darkrooms (.pdf)
Other articles:
100 years of FOMA
160 years of ADOX
INTERVIEWS
>Interview< ILFORD In Focus
>Interview< EMULSIVE
>Feature< PhotoKlassik International (.pdf)
>Interview< APHOG Next
>Interview< Fotografiamo.net
>Feature< Foto Cult (.pdf, in Italian)
