As a film photographer who likes to control everything from composing the image to developing and processing, Shawn develops his own film and has taught several other photographers how to do so. By request, he has developed a three part tutorial for developing your own black and white film at home. Part One, Part Two, and Part Three

Shawn Hoke is a New York based film photographer who comfortably handles shooting both film and digital. His primary interest is in shooting street, artistic, and documentary subjects, which could be people, objects or the city itself.

He works in 35mm film format (Leica M6, Nikon FM2n and Olympus OM-1), digital (Nikon D90), and medium format (Hasselblad 501cm).

Shawn shoots primarily in Manhattan, but also Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Yonkers. He has photographed in Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, Paris, Dublin, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, Portland, Austin, and Denver. He sells prints of his work by request and can shoot events and artwork.