Lomography: Leave the Digital Grind Behind

Lomography: Leave the Digital Grind Behind

It’s a back-to-the-roots niche market, driven by mainly young people who love the retro design and ease of use. It’s LOMO photography they’re after. That’s right, LOMO with capital letters, name of a Russian state-owned optical company founded 1914 in Petrograd, today’s St. Petersburg. LOMO is no longer making compact cameras that anyone can afford, […]

Colossal Analog Camera: Size Does Matter, After All

Colossal Analog Camera: Size Does Matter, After All

It will be like the circus coming to town. The negatives are so large they have to take them to a window for inspection: Meet Dennis Manarchy, a digital photography anarchist as his name seems to suggest. Ever smaller cameras are all the rage, the classic DSLR with mirror and prism looks like a dinosaur […]