Lomography
I’ve found a great little camera called a Lomo LC-A+ (Lomo Compact Automatic). It uses the apparently legendary Minolta 1 lens to produce quirky results which typically include the following characteristics:
Incorrect exposure
Over exposed colours
Light leakage due to the poor construction of the camera itself (a feature?)
Happy Accidents (!)
Vignetting
Surrounding this structured chaos is a subculture called Lomography, it’s interesting, especially the history of the camera and how it was basically saved from disappearing completely after the capitalisation of the Soviet Union.
I would like to be able to afford to buy one of these cameras, but I can’t at the moment (ironic considering it’s history). However, I soon realised that the effects caused by the camera could easily be recreated using photoshop/gimp etc without too much difficulty. To get started fast I grabbed a copy of some photoshop actions like these.
These are my first batch of 24 exposures!
When occupational cues tell you no one is home.
01/01/2011,Flickr User: Veeter1971 – “Trashed Office”, http://www.flickr.com/photos/45756249@N05/4271472841/in/photostream/
This space is so full of occupational cues. Its a screaming dichotomy of presence and absence. It must have been fantastic to find this room like this.
