1/13/2024 0 Comments Lomo studio![]() According to these materials, Lomo's quirky history begins late in Soviet-era Russia, in 1982. "What the hell is Lomo?" The question plasters Lomo's promotional material, the website (and the how-to manual that accompanies your Lomo purchase. Context is not the concern of the Lomo photographer. 9.Afterwards either." Where is this image? Of what time period? Who is this a picture of? These are all questions the Lomo owner learns to stop worrying about. You don't have to know beforehand what you captured on film. It's somewhere in San Jose, but it doesn't look like San Jose."Ī few days later, while leafing through a how-to booklet for the Lomo camera, I see Rules No. "We haven't been able to figure it out yet. "Everyone keeps asking me where that statue is," Cherri says, touching one corner of the photo. It's an arresting scene, and Cherri Lakey, Two Fish's co-owner, and I stop to gaze at it. The image, slightly blurred, gives the impression of movement or hurried photography. The statue appears to be situated in one corner of a garden, next to a vine-covered wall. On top of one stack sits the photo of a sculpture of a man dancing, blown up to about 3 feet by 2 feet. In some groupings, a child's face, blurred by its proximity to the camera lens, complements the pale fade of a sunset, which ends up next to a fence painted sky blue, arcing away in perspective. The photographs seemed to be grouped by color. Carved from an old brick-walled iron foundry, the studio features a warren of side offices, scuffed wood flooring, and a gallery space littered, on the day I visited, with old office furniture, folding chairs and stacks of large pieces of plywood mounted with careful mosaiclike arrangements of photographs. TWO FISH DESIGN studio doesn't exactly look like the setting for a socialist revolution. How one Russian camera took over the world, and set up a not-so-secret base right in San Jose Lomographs by Brian Eder, Yina Kim, Lisa Knowles, Cherri Lakey
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