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05
Aug

What? You Have Got Your FishEye2? WTH Is LOMO?

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Yup! I’ve got my lomo cam a.k.a FishEye2! *grin* Ingat tak Wish List Saffa? This’s it!

What The Hell Is Lomography?

“In the early 1990s a couple of students discovered a small, enigmatic Russian Camera, the Lomo Kompakt Automat, and created a new style of artistic experimental photography with their first unorthodox snapshot cavortings.

The approach: taking as many photographs (Lomographs) as possible in the most impossible of situations then having them developed as cheaply as possible. The result is a flood of authentic, colourful, crazy, off-the-wall, unfamiliar and often brilliant snapshots.

These are mounted on panels to form a sea of thousands of Lomographs which regularly astonish viewers with their sheer colourfulness, diversity and power of expression.” (more…)

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