Twenty-two days and fourteen rolls after, I’m still high on Lomo.

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As with all passions, I came into it head-on, devouring everything I could read about it, joining it’s premiere local community - lomomanila, savoring the pictures graciously shared online and learning as much as possible from the pioneers (thanks Jill).

The attraction for Lomo stemmed perhaps from how lomographs looked - super saturated, vignetted, off-kilter colors and blurs. The exact characteristics of the videos that we make. The coincidence was uncanny yet not surprising.

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But reading more about lomography, you learn that it’s not all “style”. It’s not even strictly the cameras.

You realize it’s more of a lifestyle, an attitude. To shoot without boundaries, without being constrained with the traditional rules of photography (though no question, lomography IS photography), to be spontaneous in shooting, to not think at all.

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BS? Maybe. Fun. No doubt.

Here’s a wedding entirely shot with a Lomo Kompakt Automat+. Chris and Cho.

The point being there is no point. Why? Because I wanted to and I could.

Further reading:
lomomanila (the shiznit Pinoy Lomo Forum)
lomography (official site)
a dissident’s point of view

resellers:
ro
jennie
dek

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