Therese Brown, whose Holga, pinhole, and Polaroid work I’ve been following on Flickr for the last two years or so, has just launched a web site of her photography as well as a blog. Check it out at thisiswhatisee.com!

Check out this interview with Robert Holmgren by Chris Keeney. You can see Holmgren’s work at his Web site, robertholmgren.com.

Check out this interview with toy camera photographer Steph Parke by Mário Venda Nova. In both English and Portuguese.

Squarefrog, who has put together what I believe to now be the definitive Holga resource site, has done a focus test to see if the generally cites distances for each focussing icon are correct. He writes: I decided to dispell some Holga focus myths and actually test the focus distance for the 3 people, and [...]

The exposure math of the Holga has always been a mystery to me, because it seems to violate the reliable Sunny 16 Rule. The rule basically states that if you set your shutter speed to the ISO of your film and the aperture to f/16, you’ll get a solid exposure in direct sunlight. (For example, [...]

Check it out, work by Alex Craig, Don Brice, Tim Gibbs, and Tim Hixson! The show runs through 24 April, 2007, at Blender Gallery, 16 Elizabeth St., Paddington, NSW, AU. (Here’s a larger, more legible version of the flyer.)

Check out photographer Don Brice‘s excellent modification that allows you to use normal flash/strobe units on Diana toy cameras: I enjoy using the Diana in the studio and shooting portraits and still life lit with flash. I discovered long ago that by ripping off the usual connector on the end of the syncro cable, you [...]

Holgamods are having a photo contest. No entry fee, you retain copyright, and other rare indications of sanity.

Australian photographer/neuroscientist Hamish Innes-Brown writes: Me and 11 other people (some from this Flickr – fotojux, mikelefevre, artpunk, maybe others?) are in a show that opens this Thursday night called LIGHTLEAKS [not the magazine]. It is called this as all the images are shot on dodgey crappy cameras with useless lenses and hideous light leaks. [...]

“Cheap Shots is an exhibition of photographic art created with cheap, plastic cameras, old cameras, pinhole cameras, and Polaroids. In an age of expensive, hi-tech equipment, these simple cameras offer a refreshing, lo-tech view of the world in our time. The work in this show was created by seventeen artists from the Michigan area who [...]