This little toy camera is quite interesting. The Holga shoots 120 mm film, a larger format than the typical 35mm, yet it is constructed from plastic.The reason I want one (desperately) is the unpredictable and surreal quality of the images it produces. Shooting with a Holga is a risk, the control over the settings that we get with digital cameras isn't there.
But the results?
Oh unexpected, lovely, creepy, flawed, beautiful.
It seems like photographers today are obsessed with the mechanics of photography and not the idea of photography. I am not obsessed with quality. I am obsessed with ideas, with feeling and emotion. I thrive on telling a story with a photo.
So, the Holga is on my wish list.
And if we ever move out of the shed, I'll make a darkroom.
