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Issue 59 - The Life Outside Issue

Issue 59

The Life Outside Issue

Introducing the Life Outside issue of Habitus magazine. With life increasingly being absorbed into a digital space, there is never a more important moment to hold something tangible. In this context, the power of nature to have a physiological impact on our sense of wellbeing has never been more important. So how can we cultivate the benefits of the our natural environment in the most intimate of places – our homes? This was the question that helped to bring this issue of Habitus to life.

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Lomography – back to basics
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Lomography – back to basics

Lomo cameras get a strong following in a counter-revolution to digital
photography.

Words Ben Morgan

Now, I feel ashamed to admit it, but I’ve only just come across the LOMO camera. I vaguely recall these ingenious devices experiencing a resurgence a few years back, but I hadn’t realised the following they’d garnered.

Lomographic pictures are described by The Lomographic Society (see what I mean about a following) as “moment-catchers; characterized by vibrant colours, shadowy framing, surprise effects and spontaneity”.’

The Lomographic Society boasts over 1 million members who get out and about snapping with everything from ‘fisheye’ cameras to the new Spinner 360˚ – which captures ‘unlimited panoramas’.

Essentially, these lo-tech cameras can create sometimes-blurred, sometimes overexposed and colourful images on 35mm film.  The result is never the same and the process is extremely analogue (does it worry anyone else that the next generation probably won’t even know what ‘analogue’ means?).

 

 

Fisheye 2 (exposure above)

Starting with the Lomo LC-A – a Russian-made film camera – Lomography (the company who now sells the Lomo cameras), has since added a range of cameras and quirky accessories to help “document the incredible planet around us”.

In an age of digital photography, this is a counter-revolution we could get used to.

 

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Issue 59 - The Life Outside Issue

Issue 59

The Life Outside Issue

Introducing the Life Outside issue of Habitus magazine. With life increasingly being absorbed into a digital space, there is never a more important moment to hold something tangible. In this context, the power of nature to have a physiological impact on our sense of wellbeing has never been more important. So how can we cultivate the benefits of the our natural environment in the most intimate of places – our homes? This was the question that helped to bring this issue of Habitus to life.

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