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• Healing, the Female Form, and the Music of Photography: Interview with Photographer Sofía Fernández Stenström

  written by emiliee on 2024-03-25 #people

  

  For Sofía Fernández Stenström, photography is a vehicle for healing and transformation. Having photographed women all over the world, Sofía speaks with us about the value of her work as a sacred experience between photographer and model, where a space opens for release and understanding.

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• Deconstructing the Boundaries Between Humans and Nature: In Conversation with Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen

  written by emiliee on 2024-02-21 #people #in-depth

  

  We spoke with the Scandinavian artist duo Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen behind the decade-long analogue project "Eyes as Big as Plates", which sees elderly people from all over the world dressed in wearable sculptures made from the likes of mosses, lingonberries, nettles, and mushrooms.

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• A Slice of Biarritz and Paris on LomoChrome Color '92 with Lomographer @milchtrinken

  written by emiliee on 2024-02-01 #people #places

  

  Danish designer, illustrator, and film photographer Friederike Vogl, a.k.a. milchtrinken, has been a part of the Lomography community for 20 years. We sent her a roll of our new LomoChrome Color '92 film and spoke with her about her experience using the film and the enduring magic of analogue.

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• Floating, Falling and Colliding Beyond Reality: Interview with Film Photographer Aapo Huhta

  written by emiliee on 2024-01-31 #people

  

  Aapo Huhta's project "Gravity" explores the element of control in creation. He harnesses a sense of play and experimentation, giving rise to magically distorted images full of mystery and freedom. We spoke with Aapo about his obsession with photography and the process behind this project.

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• A Detective's Eye, a Photographer's Lens: Interview with Artist Laura Chen

  written by emiliee on 2024-01-24 #people #in-depth

  

  In her project "Being Framed", Dutch photographer Laura Chen contrives a fictional detective story using film photography, collage and text. We spoke with Laura about truth, deception, and the unexpected link between photography and criminology.

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• Broadening City Horizons: Nuno Cruz's Panoramic Street Photography Project

  written by emiliee on 2024-01-18 #gear #people #places

  

  Armed with his trusty Hasselblad XPan and a Sprocket Rocket camera, film photographer Nuno Cruz decided to try out panoramic format in the streets of Amsterdam. We sent him some Lomography Lady Grey and Berlin Kino film and spoke with him about how each combination performed.

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• Reconfiguring Greenlandic History: Interview with Film Photographer Inuuteq Storch

  written by emiliee on 2024-01-10 #people #places

  

  Inuuteq Storch's photography explores the facets of his Greenlandic identity - home, nature, people, and above all, history. We spoke with Inuuteq about his ongoing archival project, which reveals a new narrative within historical documentation: that of the Greenlandic people themselves.

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• The Side We Don't See: In Conversation with Carl-Mikael Ström

  written by emiliee on 2023-12-27 #people #in-depth

  

  In his images, Carl-Mikael Ström endeavors to achieve honesty and a world beyond language. He asks the question, "What can be shown, but not said?" We spoke with him about reckoning with creative limitation and possibility in his last two projects.

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• The Essence of Ballroom: Interview with Analogue Photographer Chai Saeidi

  written by emiliee on 2023-12-21 #people

  

  Norwegian-Iranian artist Chai Saeidi has been documenting the ever-expanding ballroom scene in Scandinavia for the past few years. In this interview we spoke with Chai about their experience capturing the essence of Ballroom and its significance in queer communities.

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• The Core of a Human Crisis: Interview with Photographer Mikkel Hørlyck

  written by emiliee on 2023-12-13 #people

  

  Copenhagen-based conflict photojournalist and visual artist Mikkel Hørlyck talks to us about his project 'Jørgen, a Mystery', a sensitive portrait of an art lover, a dedicated son, a heroin addict. A man who, against all odds, "cheated death. Many times."

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• The Line Between Chaos and Harmony: An Interview with Film Photographer Cato Lein

  written by emiliee on 2023-12-04 #people #videos #in-depth

  

  We speak with photographer Cato Lein about storytelling, curiosity and 'vemod', the Swedish word for a feeling somewhere in between melancholy, grief and tenderness. He tells us about his ongoing project, 'The Poet and the Baltic Sea', inspired by the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas Tranströmer.

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• Amsterdam's Overcast Pastels on LomoChrome Color '92 120 With @wsnake

  written by emiliee on 2023-12-03 #people

  

  Armed with a roll of LomoChrome Color '92 120 film, Victor Kravchenko (a.k.a @wsnake) headed into Amsterdam to capture the fading Autumn light. In this interview, he shares with us both his love of medium format and his first impressions of our newest film stock!

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• Capturing Autumn in Swedish Woodlands: Oscar Persson takes the LomoGraflok on a Walk

  written by emiliee on 2023-11-24 #gear #people #places #videos

  

  We sent Oscar Persson, a.k.a. That Bearded Guy, a LomoGraflok 4x5 Instant Back to take into the Swedish wilderness and capture some magical autumnal landscapes.

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