4 Responses to “Holgatastic! (Five Photos)”

1. jose villa Says:
   August 18th, 2009 at 4:10 pm EEDT

   thanks for the feature PDN!! you inspire me!

2. Rafael C. Torres Says:
   August 23rd, 2009 at 11:16 am EEDT

   Mr. Villa’s images are carefully composed but I wonder if he’d would have created a more useful photograph had he used a 6×6 camera with a really decent lens?
   I don’t own a Holga and I wonder why do we have to downgrade our photography with lenses that ages ago would have been throwaways.

   Have we become jaded with the great technological advances created for us that we have to resort to “play cameras” to make interesting photography?

3. Scott Cejka Says:
   October 26th, 2009 at 2:12 pm EEDT

   @Rafael It’s an effort to escape all the mega-pixels and digital this and that and get back to the essence of photography which is just the image as organic and simple as can be. That’s what the feeling of using a toy camera is all about.

   Also, it’s how many people got involved in photography to begin with. It was never about the camera but it has become all about the “technology” today and it’s sad. Jose’s images bring back the fun in looking through something that has a button and a plastic viewfinder and that’s all. It then becomes only about composition, or color or contrast. I think if anything, it makes you a better photographer shooting with such extreme tech limitations.

4. Alex Says:
   November 24th, 2011 at 1:09 pm EEST

   :-)

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