So, as some of you may have noticed, my recent submissions are quite different from the kind of photographs before. They are colored, sometimes blurry and unsharp or with exposure artifacts and sometimes share strange framings. These must be bad photographs, they are all faulty. And they are all made on film. They consist off some light which fell through some strange lens that noone uses anymore on a gelatine emulsion which reacts to light. Then this emulsion was plunged into some strange chemicals which made the emulsion colorful. That's photography. Or better: That was photography about 10 years ago.

These days (or even earlier) people used a camera that became a symbol for the charming colors and tones of analogue photography. The famous LOMO LC-A. [link] A little pocket cam from russia. Built to be easy to use, robust and cheap. I won't brag on the thing itself, but rather what it stands for. It stands for a kind of fun and spontaneous photography that now makes up it's very own genre. The definition the Lomography may be "the ten rules of lomography":

1. Take your camera everywhere you go.


2. Use it any time - day and night.


3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it.


4. Try the shot from the hip.


5. Approach the objects of your Lomographic desire as close as possible.


6. Don’t think.


7. Be fast.


8. You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film.


9. Afterwards either.


10. Don’t worry about any rules.

(from [link] )

Do these rules remind you of anything?

Yes, with some exceptions, they pretty much resemble what good street-photography focuses on: documenting the human condition. Except that Lomography uses a different visual style. Lomography is color-pop, often with cross-processing ( [link] ), red-scale film (negative film, exposed from the backside) and expired film or pushed processing. The Lomographers, as some people call them(-selfs), say that they ignore all rules of photography. But that's certainly not entirely true. Although they encourage to break with traditional point and shoot photography and propose different perspektives (not a new movement after all [link] ), really good lomographs are very formal appealing artworks. Colors, lights and form still adhere to the rules of aesthetics in the human eye. But then again, it allows to have fun. And that can't be a bad thing. Neither in street-photography nor in lomography. I can only suggest everyone to have a look at the aesthetics of lomo, maybe there is something for you to love

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