Toy camera article in Photoblogs magazine
Posted 1 May, 2006 in Op-Ed
Badass photographer Tread has written a piece on toy camera photography for the May 2006 issue of Photoblogs magazine, and it go a little something like this:
So why now, when it is easier than ever to get a nice photograph and cheaper and simpler to print your own, have I became a near-Luddite photographically speaking? It’s an easy answer: I like the work I make with toy cameras more than anything I’ve done in the past 23 years of photohobbying. With toycameras, I am forced to think more about the shot, less about the camera’s controls, more about what I want the photo to "say," less about the technical fluffery of so-called "good" photography. Any respected photographer will sing the same song, "It’s not the camera or the equipment that makes a good photo, it’s the person behind the camera…"
Read article at photoblogsmagazine.org
When you’re done with the article, do yourself a favor and check out Tread’s portfolio site and blog.
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tread
May 2, 2006 at 8:17 am -
Thank you for the kind words and plugerewski…BTW dropping at link from my place to yours, great stuff here that I have been missing! Keep it up.
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