Toy camera article in Photoblogs magazine

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.

One thought to “Toy camera article in Photoblogs magazine”

  1. 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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