Max Pinckers, Brussels/Ghent, Belgium
Favorite Lomo cameras: LC-A+
Favorite effect produced by Lomo cameras: Colors, double exposure, analogue
Favorite film: Kodak Ektachrome 100 Plus Professional (EPP)
Favorite photos taken with a Lomo camera
How long have you been doing Lomography?
Three years.
What got you started in Lomography?
I started with Lomography because I wanted to be a photographer. I thought that an LC-A would be a good buy for a first camera. When I got it I was so excited that I spent the first few days riding my bike through Ghent shooting everyone that I passed on the bike. It became something so exciting, spontaneous and magic that I became a complete addict!
I took my little pocket sized LC-A with me everywhere I went. I began to photograph my everyday life, my friends, the people I met and the places I went. I began to experiment with long exposures, multiple flashes, double exposures, slide film and cross processing. It was like a whole new world opened up to me.
I started noticing all the little beauties I came across while walking down the street, as if I was blind before I met Lomography. It opened my eyes, I learned to observe and see things that would be unnoticeable to others. From then on I knew that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life – take photographs.
I now study photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and work as a freelance photographer for commercial and fashion shoots using my LC-A for most assignments.
Why do you Lomo?
I love Lomo because of its style—it has such a unique quality to it that every picture becomes special. Every time that button is pressed, magic happens! It’s the most spontaneous, exciting and adrenaline-filled photography imaginable because most of it is based on chance and feeling. As a matter of fact, it’s the opposite of what is considered to be contemporary photography today, mostly done on large format view cameras with a very high quality and slow, exact work process.
Another big plus point is the community that has built Lomo to what it has become today. The online community is so interactive that people do projects together all over the world, like the famous “film-swap”. This is the drive behind the whole movement, this is what makes every picture worth while.
This article was first published in 2009.
Why We Lomo was a project I started in 2009 to feature the many faces that Lomography has managed to capture. Its home was a now-defunct creative blog but has since found its new home here. Be sure to check back every fortnight on Tuesdays for a new featured profile. Know a Lomography enthusiast? Email me at hello[at]nikipaniki.com.
