Alex Shnitman

For a while I’d been thinking about trying to take photos with an old film camera. Having started with digital right from the beginning, I had never done this before. I wanted to rid myself of the electronics, the blinking lights, beeping sounds, glowing screens and automatically calculated exposures, and get down to the bare essentials: recording light on a film surface with a purely mechanical device.

Then last May, one of my favorite photoblogs, T.O.P., published this entry. That was all the encouragement I needed. I took to the streets armed with my stepfather’s 1972 Kiev 3A. Not a Leica, but a rangefinder camera, still; I got used to its technical deficiencies and after a while actually came to like them. They push the photographs somewhat into the realm of Lomography but I don’t mind the least.

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