Southsea Lomo

Lomography has it’s roots back in the 1990s when two Austrian students discovered the LC-A camera, manufactured by Russian optics company Lomo. Initially taken with the camera’s lofi film photographic results the two students struck a deal to distribute the camera and Lomography quickly turned from a small company in to more of a global photographic community with the lofi, cheap, candid and colourful aesthetic still at it’s heart. Lomography now produce a wide range of film camera, film and accessories that millions of people use with the Lomography 10 Golden Rules:

1. Take your camera everywhere you go
2. Use it any time – day and night
3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it
4. Try the shot from the hip
5. Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible
6. Don’t think (william firebrace)
7. Be fast
8. You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film
9. Afterwards either
10. Don’t worry about any rules

Lomography products are stocked in Southsea by Bored in Albert Road and Southsea itself has a small and growing community of Lomography advocates, with many photos finding their way in to the Southsea Lomo Flickr group. If you are interested in experimenting yourself check out the Lomography website, Bored, the Flickr group and also the following examples (click on Read More to see them all) and get involved.

Photo: Charlie Thompson/Pudding Snack (Holga)

Photo: Claire Sambrook (Action Sampler)

Photo: Matt Howarth
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Bored – Lomography cameras now in stock

Many of you are aware of lomo cameras and the lomography society i’m sure, but did you know you can now pick up a range of different cameras from bored

There’s the Action sampler flash, 35mm camera, Diana + Medium format camera, Lomo / Diana 35mm back pack, Fisheye 2, 35mm camera, Holga starter kit, medium format camera and the Lomolitos single use cameras. Click here to check them out!

Here’s a snap of Bored Manager Tom I took a while back with my Fisheye II.

PRIMARY – A Phoneography Exhibition by Strong Island – Call for entries

This coming new year we will be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.

With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.

The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.

Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.

PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme.

The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.

Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot.

We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER

Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage