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The Rossmann HR 200 from the drugstore is one of the cheapest color negative films in Germany. Despite the low price, you can get great pictures with this film.
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Is the DM Paradies 400 from DM really bad? A good film can't be that cheap, right? Read my review on this 35mm film after the break.
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Different sounds emanate from various melodic mechanisms. While they all have their maker's marks and unique quirks, builds of instruments are standard. Now you can go where few have gone before: inside musical instruments, a concept by Björn Ewers & Mona Sibai for the Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Are you curious about the difference between the old and the new Agfa CT Precisa 100? Here's a review of the new slide film in a red box from AgfaPhoto, the successor of the original Agfa CT Precisa 100.
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Photokina 2012 is fast approaching, and the Lomographic Society International will be representing the analogue world! We are searching for helping hands before, during and after this big event happening in Cologne/Germany!
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Sometimes, people tend to forget to have fun with photography and take it all too seriously. But not Jan von Holleben whose series "Dreams of Flying" has inspired many others to play-shoot whimsical scenes with kids. Find out more about the artist—plus his installations at the John Radcliffe Children‘s Hospital in Oxford which will be completed today—here.
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This is a story of a film roll that has been missing for more than ten years and was recently found in a drawer. These photos were taken in the middle of the 1990's with my trusty Praktica LB. The roll was found two years ago and developed in a professional mini lab.
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In my quest to find films everybody forgot about, I found the ALFO Professional Slide Film. Never really heard about that one, so I started my CSI engine. So this review is rather about the way one researches about the history of gone film-gems than the look of its emulsion.
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Here's the fast, colorful, and rhythmic music video by ElektroPop Duo "ElektroBär". The entire video is shot on 35mm, using the LomoKino and has a beat that is a bit faster than the rotation of the camera's crank! While it's sans digital, the electronic sounds and robotic dance moves the dancing bear duo are seen doing sure are electrifying!
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This week's featured portrait photographer is fashionista favourite, Juergen Teller. The German lensman is one of the few artists who remains analogue—armed with his Contax G2—which suits his unorthodox "in-your-face" shooting style. Read more to see some of his most popular work, from commercial projects to couture clients to commissioned portraits.
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After a dip into the pool with Franco Fontana a few weeks ago, this week’s installment of Influence or Coincidence dives into the cold and foggy German winter. Read on to find out more about photography’s star couple Bernd and Hilla Becher and of course, who on Lomography got closest to their style.
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February sees the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt presenting a major survey of US artist George Condo. The exhibition is open until May 28, 2012. Find out more after the jump.
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To celebrate Lomography’s launch of the new WILD limited editions, let’s take a trip to the zoo with German photographer Candida Höfer.
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Most of us have heard of IKEA, the huge Swedish furniture store. Usually it is connected with reasonable prices and modern design, so how in the world did Lomography fit into this? Read on to find out!
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LomoAmigo Stephan Kaps aka mephisto19 shows photographs, sound and text work at Kaffeebar Rossi in Hannover, Germany. The opening is on January 22nd and the exhibition will take place till 24th of March 2012. Title of the exhibition is "Überlagerte Zeit", meaning eclipsed or overlapping time. Here you will see some High Quantity Multiple Exposures (HQME), texts about time and some sound works made out of several layers.
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The first article in the Influence or Coincidence series looks into the work of German photographer Candida Höfer and finds out who on Lomography comes closest to her breathtaking interior scenes.
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In the middle of the 1990s I took some photos of Dresden but I lost my film and it was only last year when I found it inside a little box in my library. When I developed the film, the colours are 100% Lomo! All these pictures were taken with a Praktica LB, still 100% working
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Self-trained photographer, Sarah Bernhard, loves taking photographs. In fact, she takes them every single day. She also has an affinity for "art, sophisticated electronic music and inspired people". Both a skilled photo-taker, and photo-illustrator, Sarah's creations draw upon her many inspiration and are, in turn, themselves inspiring!
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My most memorable travel escapade in 2011 was a one-week hike through the Alps. I grew up in the south of Germany and my parents always took me to the Alps. They love to walk and I didn't. Now I live far away from from those huge mountains, in a medium-sized city. I actually started to miss them.
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What's better than spending a Saturday at the flea market hunting for old cameras and other precious snips? The flea market at the bank on the river “Leine” is one of the oldest flea markets held every Saturday in Germany. From 8am 'til to 4pm, you can go hunting and haggling for bargains or just enjoy the bazaar-like atmosphere.
