>> |
Anonymous
First, let me say, inb4artfag.
I shoot with a Holga occasionally for it's simplicity. It's fun, and you can usually get some interesting results. I usually tape my Holga so I don't get any of those "artsy" light leaks, because I personally feel that a huge red splotch just fucks up a picture.
As a company (or a "society," as they call themselves), Lomography is bullshit. The idea of forgetting any elements of composition is just a ridiculous attempt to sell shitty cameras so that the hipster faggots can make instant art by carrying around a LOMO LC-A (which aren't even made in Russia anymore anyway). They plaster artsy cross-processed pictures all over their crappy site to bring in the hipsters. It works. It's capitalism.
However, I think that there is nothing wrong with using low-fi equipment, and I also feel that pictures made with some of this equipment can turn out great. There are groups of people who like using low-fi equipment like the Holga and the Diana to take pictures, and most of them denounce the lomography trend as well. Most of these people also don't take themselves seriously as photographers, because they also realize that they are using toys for equipment.
TL;DR: Lomography (the company) is shit. Low-fi and retro equipment is fun and has a lot of followers, but they're more lighthearted and don't take themselves seriously as these self-pronounced "lomographers" do.
|