Tag: italy

  • Five Years in Analogue with @deansupertramp

    written by macasaett on 2023-11-23 #people
    Five Years in Analogue with @deansupertramp

    Andrea (@deansupertramp) has been a part of the Lomography community for over five years now. He speaks with us about the analogue process he has cultivated through photography over that time period.

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  • A Salute to the Masters: Antaryami (A Tribute to Marc Riboud)

    written by sirio174 on 2015-11-28
    A Salute to the Masters: Antaryami (A Tribute to Marc Riboud)

    This article is a tribute to a great French photographer, Marc Riboud, as well as to the inimitable interpreter of the "Art of Silence" and arguably the greatest mime ever, Marcel Marceau.

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  • DJ Miss Yellow and the La Sardina in Europe

    written by edwinchau on 2011-10-24 #people
    DJ Miss Yellow and the La Sardina in Europe

    DJ MISS YELLOW is back! Our good friend who was busy with music around the world is once again our amigo. Which Lomography camera did she bring? What kind of people did she meet? Details below!

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  • A Salute to the Masters: Police Games (A Tribute to Leonard Freed)

    written by sirio174 on 2016-01-30
    A Salute to the Masters: Police Games (A Tribute to Leonard Freed)

    This article is dedicated to Leonard Freed's important reportage of the difficult and dangerous daily work of New York policemen, published in his 1980 book. Here I'll show you photos of public games organized by the various police forces of my hometown Como during last year's Christmas festivities. Take a look!

  • A Salute to the Masters: Santa Barbara 2015 (A Tribute to Bruce Davidson)

    written by sirio174 on 2016-02-06
    A Salute to the Masters: Santa Barbara 2015 (A Tribute to Bruce Davidson)

    This article is dedicated to Bruce Davidson, one of the most important American documentary photographers and a leading figure of the Magnum agency. Recalling his photos of the Worcester Fire Department in 1999, I'll show you my coverage of Como Fire Department's public demonstration, an annual event commemorating St. Barbara.

  • A Salute to the Masters: The Enchanted Forest (A Tribute to Ugo Mulas)

    written by sirio174 on 2016-01-16
    A Salute to the Masters: The Enchanted Forest (A Tribute to Ugo Mulas)

    This article is dedicated to the Italian street photographer and portraitist Ugo Mulas who masterfully documented the miniature circus of the great sculptor Alexander Calder. To write this tribute I documented a recent Christmas event in my city Como, a wonderful exhibition of vintage toys in a forest of snow-covered pines. Take a look!

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  • A Salute to the Masters: Bare Soles in Como (A Tribute to Christopher Anderson)

    written by sirio174 on 2015-11-07
    A Salute to the Masters: Bare Soles in Como (A Tribute to Christopher Anderson)

    The young artist and Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson published on his agency's website an awesome photo series, one of the images in it a great symbol of freedom, joy of living outdoors, purity, innocence, candor, and girlhood: the bare sole of a female lifted up, taken at the Central Park in New York. Like many other great Magnum photographers, Anderson explored this interesting body part through photographs. For this tribute, I chose a series of bare feet images I took along the promenade of the lake Como. Take a look!

  • Provence Weddings: Julia Vanessa Utsch Takes the New Petzval 85 Lens to France

    written by zonderbar on 2015-06-01 #people
    Provence Weddings: Julia Vanessa Utsch Takes the New Petzval 85 Lens to France

    Weddings are special occasions, something that calls for a special place and a very special lens. German photographer Julia Vanessa Utsch had the opportunity to exchange her usual workplace for a beautiful weekend trip to the South of France to capture a wedding with the New Petval Lens 85 Lens.

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  • A Salute to the Masters: Paestum (A Tribute to Serge Moulinier)

    written by sirio174 on 2015-05-23
    A Salute to the Masters: Paestum (A Tribute to Serge Moulinier)

    This article is dedicated to Serge Moulinier, a largely unknown French photographer who won one of the most important prizes in France with a book on Greek architecture. Strangely, little information can be found on the Internet about this great photographer whose work had also been published in an important essay written by the famous John Szarkowski, former Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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  • A Salute to the Masters: Skateboarding in Como (A Tribute to Bill Eppridge)

    written by sirio174 on 2015-05-09
    A Salute to the Masters: Skateboarding in Como (A Tribute to Bill Eppridge)

    This article is written as a tribute to a great American photojournalist in occasion of the 50th anniversary of his reportage on LIFE Magazine about the skateboarding fever that had infected so many American boys in the '60s. A joyful fever, in the streets as in the public parks.

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  • A Salute to the Masters: Barkers (A Tribute to Jack Delano)

    written by sirio174 on 2015-05-02
    A Salute to the Masters: Barkers (A Tribute to Jack Delano)

    This is tribute to the Farm Security Administration photographer, Jack Delano, and his photographic series dedicated to barkers. For this article, I chose a series of photos I took this year at the traditional Easter Fair in my city, Como, using a classic rangefinder camera loaded with a roll of black and white film.

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  • Italian food by Lomography X-Pro Slide 200

    written by sirio174 on 2014-04-26 #gear
    Italian food by Lomography X-Pro Slide 200

    On a sunny April Sunday, I decided to load a Lomography X-Pro Slide 200 on my new Lomo LC-A+; both bought few weeks ago from the Lomography Online Shop to take some photos of some Italian food stalls in the center of my city, Como. Here my first impressions about this interesting film.

  • A Salute to the Masters: Stairs (A Tribute to Alexander Rodchenko)

    written by sirio174 on 2014-03-17
    A Salute to the Masters: Stairs (A Tribute to Alexander Rodchenko)

    This article is a tribute to the great Russian photographer, sculptor, graphic designer, and painter Alexander Rodchenko. He was a pioneer in the search for unusual perspectives, with extreme view from above or from below, and with an innovative use of the diagonals and tilted views in his dynamic compositions. For this article, I was inspired by his most famous photo, a woman climbing a staircase, taken in 1930, which is reminiscent of the famous Odessa stair of the film "Battleship Potemkin" by Sergei Eisenstein.

  • Vintage Photo Booth in Firenze

    written by lulomo on 2011-09-07
    Vintage Photo Booth in Firenze

    Do you want a wonderful, vintage-looking, souvenir photo from Firenze, Italy? On the corner between Via Nazionale and Piazza della Stazione, there is a little vintage photo booth!

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  • Learning with Lomography: Spazio Labò Students and the Diana F+ - Part 1

    written by alexgray on 2023-08-13 #gear #culture
    Learning with Lomography: Spazio Labò Students and the Diana F+ - Part 1

    Check out some of the results from this special collaboration with Spazio Labo in Bologna, Italy, where participants of the analogue photography workshop experimented by creating original projects using the Diana F+ camera and Lomography film.

  • Matthew Wilkinson: First Impressions of the Lomo'instant Automat

    2016-12-11 #people
    Matthew Wilkinson: First Impressions of the Lomo'instant Automat

    Photographer Matthew Wilkinson was lucky enough to be one of the first people to test out the new Lomo'instant Automat. He took this with him on his summer holiday's and we asked him about his experiences shooting with this instant camera.

  • A Salute to the Masters: Lake Como from a Seaplane (A Tribute to Yann Arthus-Bertrand)

    written by sirio174 on 2015-08-15 #videos
    A Salute to the Masters: Lake Como from a Seaplane (A Tribute to Yann Arthus-Bertrand)

    This article is a tribute to Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the French environmental photographer known worldwide for his aerial photography and environmental reportage. Over the years, this photographer has built a rich portfolio featuring the most beautiful landscapes in the world—including my wonderful Lake Como—taken from helicopters or balloons. Take a look!

  • Happenings on Film: The Lake Como Expo Night 2015

    written by sirio174 on 2015-06-22 #news
    Happenings on Film: The Lake Como Expo Night 2015

    This article is the first one that I want to dedicate to the Expo 2015. A month ago, my city Como hosted a night spectacular preceding the opening of the Universal Exposition in Milan. With my Praktica and color film, I documented this joyful, artistic event.

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  • A Salute to the Masters: Unstuck Posters (A Tribute to Aaron Siskind)

    written by sirio174 on 2014-12-13
    A Salute to the Masters: Unstuck Posters (A Tribute to Aaron Siskind)

    After writing a series of articles dedicated to arguably some of the greatest street photographers, this time I wrote one dedicated to the American abstract expressionist artist Aaron Siskind - a master of immortalizing details of nature, body parts and architecture, as well as walls and objects found in the streets - and his series of photographs of unstuck posters.

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  • Walking in Como with a Supersampler Camera

    written by sirio174 on 2013-05-07 #gear
    Walking in Como with a Supersampler Camera

    I like to take photos of the street life of my city, especially public events, sports, and the life around the wonderful lake. This time, I used an uncommon camera for me, the amazing Supersampler, loaded with a Kodak Ultramax 400 film roll. Read more about my impressions about this camera!

  • Basking at the Beach: Playing at the World Championships of Beach Ultimate

    written by bloomchen on 2012-05-25
    Basking at the Beach: Playing at the World Championships of Beach Ultimate

    You spend your holidays at the beach? Enjoy and bathe in the sun and then refresh yourself in the water? Well, that´s what most people do on the beach. Not me. Almost every time I travel to a beach I do this to do sports: I play Beach Ultimate. - Ultimate Frisbee played on the beach. Last year in August I played at the World Championships of Beach Ultimate in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy. Read on how hard it is to run in the sun when everyone else on the beach is looking for shadow.

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  • The Italian Island Paradise of Capri

    written by plasticpopsicle on 2012-05-03
    The Italian Island Paradise of Capri

    With its inviting azure waters and scenic cliff views, a breath-taking island on Italian waters has long been a hotspot for fancy summer getaways. Read on to learn more about the paradise island of Capri, the latest inspiration for Lomography's La Sardina line of cameras!

  • Casina Murgecchia - Agriturismo

    written by wil6ka on 2009-01-21 #places
    Casina Murgecchia - Agriturismo

    There are different ways to stay the night whilst traveling through the south of Europe. One big thing in France and Italy is Agritourism. This is, when farmers also become hoteliers! They start investing and built bungalows and casa's to accommodate tourist. The restaurants are often excellent, because they just have all the ingredients around the corner - fresh.

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  • LomoGraflok Instant Back: A Chat With Gerardo Bonomo

    written by ludovicazen on 2022-10-19 #gear #people #videos
    LomoGraflok Instant Back: A Chat With Gerardo Bonomo

    Gerardo Bonomo, photographer and populizer of analogue photography, tested our LomoGraflok Instant Back. Let's take a look at his photos to find out how it went.

  • Happenings on Film: Yoga for Africa 2015

    written by sirio174 on 2015-06-28
    Happenings on Film: Yoga for Africa 2015

    In this article I will tell you about a public charity event: a power yoga session coupled with a photographic exhibition. I documented all the smiles and friendly people with my Praktica camera.

  • Water-Ferries Venezia

    written by wil6ka on 2008-09-08 #places
    Water-Ferries Venezia

    You don't believe it until you see it. Sure, every child knows that Venezia is City of Water. But you have to see, feel, smell and touch it. Otherwise it is incomprehensible. But to do that you will have to take a water-ferry from the outside, like thousands of workers and even more thousand tourists. They all have to leave their motorized vehicles outside and take the water cab.

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  • @shootitandsee's Impressions of Lomography Medium Format Films

    written by ludovicazen on 2024-02-15 #gear #people #videos
    @shootitandsee's Impressions of Lomography Medium Format Films

    Lorenzo Martinoia is an Italian analogue photography enthusiast. He tested some of our 120 and 35 mm films and posted his impressions on his YouTube channel. Read his interview and see the results here!

  • Fresh from My Darkroom: Cleaning the Statues at the Villa Olmo in Como

    written by sirio174 on 2014-11-17
    Fresh from My Darkroom: Cleaning the Statues at the Villa Olmo in Como

    After years of being abandoned, the statues at the Villa Olmo are finally being restored by a group of volunteers from a local Fine Arts academy. With my lovely Zorki 6 rangefinder, I documented one phase of this praiseworthy work. Take a look!

  • Happenings on Film: At the Start of the Tour of Lombardy with My Fed 3

    written by sirio174 on 2014-11-03
    Happenings on Film: At the Start of the Tour of Lombardy with My Fed 3

    This month, after waiting for three years, my city Como hosted the Tour of Lombardy, an important event in the male elite road cycling tour. With my Fed 3 loaded with black and white film and equipped with ultra sharp Industar 50/3.5 lens, I documented the parade of cyclists who went to the starting line after they registered. Take a look after the jump!

  • Happenings on Film: Trofeo Villa D'Este 2014

    written by sirio174 on 2014-11-10
    Happenings on Film: Trofeo Villa D'Este 2014

    This autumn, Como hosted a very important sporting event: a 6,000-meter rowing race on the lake. The race was first held in 1893. After 123 years, the Trofeo Villa D'Este has been revived. I documented this event with my trusty Praktica camera and two lenses, a 50mm and 135mm.