What is Lomography I hear you cry…well Lomography is, according to the website:
It began with a fateful encounter in the early 1990s, when two students in Vienna, Austria, stumbled upon the Lomo Kompakt Automat – a small, enigmatic Russian camera. Mindlessly taking shots from the hip, and sometimes looking through the viewfinder, they were astounded with the mindblowing photos that it produced – the colours were vibrant, with deep saturation and vignettes that framed the shot – it was nothing like they had seen before! Upon returning home, friends wanted their own Lomo LC-A, igniting a new style of artistic experimental photography that we now know as Lomography!” These rules define Lomography’s philosophy and approach towards photography. Recite them, or break all the rules – whichever way, be ready to throw all your inhibitions about photography to the wind!
http://www.lomography.com
I got my Lomo when I got stuck in France a few years ago due to an air traffic control strike. I was travelling to Carcassonne, but the flight home got cancelled, so in order to get home quickly I had to travel to Toulouse and fly from there. It was excellent fun and a trip that bought me my newest obsession (at the time anyways) …
Lomography, or Lomo as people call them, have a few rules about the use of their cameras:
- Take your camera everywhere you go
- Use it any time – day and night
- Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it
- Try the shot from the hip
- Approach the objects of your Lomographic desire as close as possible
- Don’t think (William Firebrace)
- Be fast
- You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film
- Afterwards either
- Don’t worry about any rules
I have had a lot of fun trying to figure it all out and have purchased the a lot of accessories for my beloved camera:
- 35mm film converter
- 20mmFish Eye lens
- 38mm Super-Wide lens
- 110mm Telephoto lens
Now all I would like for the camera is a tool called a splicer, which means that you can take more than one photo on each exposure…it sections of areas of the picture…very clever!
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