Lo-Fidelity Photography
As a photographer, I am interested in how the captured image is an expression of transience. I explore this fluency using film and a Holga, an inexpensive plastic lens camera with minimal controls for focus and exposure.
This approach allows me to embrace a lo-fidelity aesthetic that employs traditional imperfections—such as soft focus, distortion and light leaks—to suggest atmospheres reminiscent of daydream and memory.
For me, this optical environment adds resonance to historical cityscapes and natural topographies, as well as amplifies the ephemeral and uncanny quality of the peculiar among the quotidian.
Lo-Fidelity photography is an interest in images that explore the atmosphere created through the optical conditions of plastic lens cameras.
This collection of images were shot with either the Holga or Diana camera using medium format 120 film. Often considered 'toy' cameras due to their cheap plastic bodies (including the lens) and minimal controls (you can select either the cloud or sun icon to change the aperture), these cameras simplify the creative process. Rather than being a limitation, the lack of technical considerations allows the photographer to concentrate on perspective and composition.
Soft focus, barrel distortion, vignetting, parallax - each of these optical effects plays some role in creating the often otherwordly atmosphere of these cameras. In an inadvertent way, the poor build quality of these cameras enhance the mood of the image, and deepen the emotional tone of the composition.
All of these lo-fidelity images are homebrewed. Black & white film is chemically developed in the bathroom, then digitally scanned and printed. An aesthetic that embraces the old school and the new.