The basics

Dear readers!

I'm for now the second contributing autor to this blog, witch it is, you allready know this, dedicated to film and analogue photography. To be clear. I'm not hard core film or analogue photographer. Mitja already wrote that I started as a so called “digital” photographer, at the dawn of commercial digital photography. I’m still am today. I steadily learned the basics and then I started to discover the basics of photography with old all manual analogue cameras found at home. More about this in some post in the future. I was attracted into the classical film and manual cameras (older they are the better) and the aesthetics of analogue image, and the feeling of authenticity that only film photography can give you. I quickly learned to develop a BW film and make my own prints in the darkroom. Then I started to discover the history of photography and now alternative techniques to get the picture. Then I started to look at the masters of photography. I’m still learning the aesthetics and inherent meaning of their photographs. Then the next logical step was to go to photographic school to get the new insight about the photography. 

In the future I want to live from the thing I love to do, photographing. No matter if it is analogue or digital. But I also want to learn the old techniques of making photographs (ultimate goal for me is Daguerreotype) and master the language of the old masters of photography. I embrace many possibly contradicting poles of photography simply from the love of the photography. No doubt that I will remain a “digital” photographer it’s so more practical. But when we are talking about the soul of photography it is no doubly analogue.

 

me, pinhole - 2010

Now let’s talk about the basics. The picture is pinhole self portrait. Exposition was 16 min! I was at the lunch break at my, at that time regular job. What’s basic about that?  The pinhole camera from a cardboard box. That’s the real basic of photography. The camera obscura (the box with a pinhole), the light and the time. That’s all you need.

Matjaž