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Forget draughty halls and judges with clipboards — a new wave of Manchester photo groups is doing its critiquing over coffee and pints. We spent a month with three very different outfits to see how the format is changing, and what it means for the city's photographers in 2026.
One roll of 35mm, thirty-six exposures and a tight local brief: Manchester’s single-roll challenges are turning ordinary streets into editing exercises. Here is how the format works, what judges actually look for, and how to join a 2026 challenge without wasting a roll.
The same bus stop, the same tram platform, the same walk past the same chippy. Three Manchester photographers explain how repetition turned their daily journey into a body of work — and how you can start your own repeat-route project.
The same three streets, the same skyline from the same car park, the same mural everyone photographs and nobody looks at twice. Here's an argument for walking somewhere else — plus five specific routes, timings and reasons to bother, tested against November light in Greater Manchester.