The Diana F+ is the latest medium format camera from Lomography – an affectionate remake of the dirt-cheap but commercially unsuccessful 1960s original from Hong Kong. It is a very good looking camera with a retro bulb flash, cast in reflective silver, standing proudly on top of the matt plastic casing.  I am a big fan of the Holga – Diana’s well-established big brother and I was eager to test out the Diana F+ over the summer.

The winner of our competition to celebrate all things 8 (inspired by the auspicious date 08/08/08) is stager57

Though Stephen Shore’s earliest black and white photographs were favourably received, his reputation was built on two bodies of work in colour - American Surfaces and Uncommon Places - assembled from pictures taken during a series of 1970s road trips across the United States.

An extraordinary third project from the era - Road Trip Journal - has languished largely unseen, until now. Like its predecessors, the Journal attests to Shore’s fascination with the banalities of popular culture and the idiosyncrasies of the vernacular.

Stephen Shore spoke to Guy Lane about his work, and desire to produce a distinctly impersonal diary.