It’s just so easy! I snap all these images as I move around London just living my normal life. I bung my films into a high street photo processing chain (because I use XP2 black and white C41 film). Gerry there does his thing and they’re done: up on the internet they go. No technology. No amplification. No months of editing and analysing. No arguments. No meetings. No time wasters. And I guess I just love the feel of film. It’s romantic and other-worldly. And the Lomo makes all my shots feel like something from another time. I love digital SLRs for film work, but that’s also because they are so liberating. But I love film on a Lomo because it’s mysterious and unpredictable. Yet you have so few options, you just have to take a proper good photo. I also like that a Lomo looks like a toy. You can point it at someone or something and nobody thinks of you as a ‘photographer’ so they stay more relaxed about it. I do like the egalitarianism of today’s imagemaking options. I can use film to take cinematic photos. And I can use digital SLRs make films.
LSD Magazine - Issue 9 - Chasing Dragons
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