Lomography Magazine: Purple Places with Nick Collingwood

December 8, 2018

One thing I truly love about film is the endless possibilities to capture images in a unique way. Whether it’s different cameras, lenses or the film itself, everything makes a difference. So when I grabbed a roll of Lomography’s crazy LomoChrome Purple film, I wanted to shoot something different with it. My friends at Lomography NYC noticed some of my shots and wanted to do a little interview with me for Lomography Magazine about my experience with the film! So check it out!

We’ve all taken so many travel photos around the world but often times, they can begin to look very similar to everyone else’s photos. So I used this film to change up my view a bit while travelling and really loved the results!

Technically I shot half the roll with an Olympus XA in Lisbon around March (then my camera died…) and so I saved it and shot the rest of the roll in May when I went to the west coast and visited Joshua Tree and Palm Springs and used my Olympus Infinity Stylus . Check out the full interview and more photos on Lomography Magazine!

And many thanks to the Lomography NYC crew for creating an awesome film community here in NYC. Love those people.

Upstate NY Hike with Mono No Aware // 16mm + Polaroids + 110

September 25, 2018

I obviously shoot a ton of Super 8 film as anyone who's ever visited my website or Instagram can see. So it was a real treat to find out last spring that while I was at a Mono No Aware fundraiser, that I won the raffle for a Mono No Aware workshop where a group of people would take a van loaded with cameras, film and snacks upstate to Hudson, NY and Kaaterskill Falls to shoot some 16mm! My first time!

Our first destination was the Olana State Historic Site along the Hudson River, home of Frederic Edwin Church, who was a landscape painter from the Hudson River School. There we had a brief chat with our guide and filmmaker, Fern Silva, and Steve Cossman (founder of Mono No Aware) about the history of the area both in painting as well as 16mm film. Peter Hutton was a filmmaker that shot many serene landscapes of the Hudson Valley and American cities on 16mm film and lived in the area until his passing in 2016. And so, inspired by those who came before us, we set out to create our own portraits of the landscape. We left the historic set and went over to Kaaterskill Falls to start our hike.

We were provided Bolex H16 REX5 16mm cameras, courtesy of Mono No Aware, to use and some Kodak Vision3 50D color negative film. Given the bright sunny day and gorgeous springtime colors, it was a perfect match. I also brought along my Minolta Instant Pro, which is a Polaroid Spectra camera, and a Pentax Auto 110, which I found fitting as it's a 110 camera which is actually just 16mm film cut down for still cameras. Unfortunately, that camera has some winding issues aaaand I may have dropped it at one point on the hike so the photos are cropped a little funny. But so it goes...

We hiked around with our fairly heavy Bolex's, chatted a bunch, saw some waterfalls and very cool landscapes and ate delicious food Steve had prepared. Overall, a great way to spend a day. I just received a “K-3” Krasnogorsk-3 16mm camera and I'm now very eager to shoot more of the format. I already shot a some test rolls and a little music video with it a few weeks ago. And just shot another music video this weekend! So lots to look forward to including Kodak re-releasing Ektachrome in 16mm!

NYC Film Meetup with Brooklyn Film Camera // Super 8 + Polaroids

January 23, 2018

With film having a somewhat of a resurgence these past few years, it's no surprise that a bit of a community has formed online to share images, films, and banter. Also shops promoting film like Brooklyn Film Camera and Lomography have been doing their part as well.

Kyle Depew of Brooklyn Film Camera @upsidewalkdown

Julien Piscioneri of Brooklyn Film Camera @julsdylan

Frank Dautant of Lomography NYC @frankdtnt

Christian Polt of Lomography NYC @poltone

Last fall in NYC, the two shops organized a picnic for any film and analog lovers to get together and hang out in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Probably 100+ people showed up and about three times as many cameras! It was a great time and I shot a variety of Polaroids that day as well as a roll of expired Plus-X Super 8 film to remember the event with.

@gramdole

@catherinemcwilliams

@dudemanhouse

@stuzphotography

As far as the variety of cameras, there were Polaroid Land cameras with peelapart film, Polaroid SX-70s, Hasselblads, Contax 645, a Mamiya 7, a WIDELUX, plenty of Lomography cameras, a Hasselblad tintype camera by Kevin Scott, a few odd 35mm cameras, and of course, my Polaroid 110B and my Nizo 801 Macro Super 8 camera. In the 110B I shot with expired Polaroid 669 peelapart film which is really lovely as well as some Impossible Project B&W 600 film.

Geoffrey Berliner of Penumbra Foundation @geoffreyberliner

Curtis Willcocks of ICP @curtiswillcocks

Phil V of @polaroidsofpeople

Cory Marr @therealcorymarr

It was really cool seeing the different cameras and chatting with everyone about film. Dave Bias of Film Ferrania (which is doing their best to recreate color reversal Super 8 film) hosted a small raffle for bags of film goodies from a ton of different film companies like Film Ferrania, BFC, Lomography, Polaroid Originals, Mike Padua, and tons of other little patches and what not. And of course no gathering of film photographers is complete without a group Polaroid from Nick McManus.

Enjoy the Super 8 film from the event below and looking forward to more film meetups in 2018!