I took this photo years ago when I was young and green, before I bought a “real” camera, before I had any idea of where all this chasing of light and form could take me. 

I was driving across the country, living in a van with a street magician and trying to find my own little piece of the wild blue yonder. 

This is the home of  strangers father. The stranger was a tough looking guy I met in a bar in Oakland. I remember  talking about heroin, I remember talking about Bradley Nowell, I remember talking about how difficult it was to find a shower on the road when you lived in a vehicle. 

That was the reason I found myself here. In search of cleanliness in a house full of beautiful clutter. 

This photo was all instinct. I didn’t take note of it until years later. With a more seasoned eye, with a heavier heart it caught my attention while I was flipping through my archive. 

This is how memories look to me. All golden light and old dusty things and warmth. They’re beautiful half truths that I can take apart and live inside of for a few seconds when the “real” world becomes too much.

The guts of a new series I’m working on. Cinematic images shot thorughout the last decade cropped to the Panavision aspect ratio.

Reely and Truly is a short documentary about contemporary photography and what it means to be a photographer from filmmaker Tyrone Lebon. 

Filmed on a whole mess of formats (16mm, 8mm, super 8 etc.) and using a free form narrative and audio structure the film plays out like some kind of guided trip. 

If you have 30 minutes get coffee and headphones and sit down with this. If you don’t have 30 minutes do it anyway. 

Grrr!

Here’s the latest piece from the Look Who Rolled Into Town project.

David Hoskins is the master behind the illustration. I’m the one who points the camera at stuff. 

Digital meets analogue in the best possible way or just the latest hipstainstamagraphic thingamijig? 

I like to think it’s the former. With it’s minimalist design and the inability to see the photographs as they’re shot the Holga D distills the best parts of it’s analogue counterpart into a sleek and very accesible design. 

In words of it’s creator Saikat Biswas

“The biggest ‘feature’ of the Holga D is lack of features! It has absolute bare minimum feature set that you need for unobtrusive photography.”

Right now the camera is just a dream on paper but Biswas hopes to get it funded and out into the world. I for one hope he does too. 

You can read a much more in depth breakdown of the Holga D on his website. I highly recommend it. 

What are your thoughts? If the Holga D were to go into production would you buy one?

Do you see a reason one should purchase a Holga vs. downloading an app that simulates an analogue experience app like Hipstamatic disposable for example?