Boys from the Blackstuff by Ian Gilbert

Schoharie Creek Smith Camp by David L. Ketcham

a late Christmas from Darryl Cox

Clive France

Chris Mearns

st-cecile by Charles Binns

Spring Tree on Industrial Ave by Carol Mikkelson

Britt Aximon and her beautiful “Leaves”

New Work from Bert Bulder

Snow Drops by Ben Boswell

Ten from Left by Anna Hurtig

Andrew Phillips

Alan Lambe

Alessandro Reginato

Alessandro Reginato, 24yrs Italy

I am an architecture student in venice, and become interested in analog photography after i found my dad’s olympus om1. Might be funny but i discovered about the Holga using an iPhone app called “camera bag” that features some “vintage” filters. I really loved the square format and started googling here and there to find out something about the medium format film. Ended buying a Holga from China for a very cheap price, then i walked in at the local photo lab and asked for a 120 roll, they had it, an ilford bw. Shooting with a Holga is really a spiritual experience, you find yourself thinking deeply before every shot (i do not agree that much with lomography slogans), it’s just about your eye, no settings to adjust. Holga really brings photography to its primitive being.

another talented Holga photographer Joins us!! Jojonas

hi! um… I got reminded about this terrific blog through the filmwasters forum, where I’m known as jojonas, and I thought I’d give this a shot(!)

There is just so many talented holgagraphers on the blog that I’ve been content with just giving it a peek now and then to feel the inspiration.
I’d be honoured if I could join holgaville and I’m therefore sending you a photo that I’m very fond of.. I shot it last winter when visiting my home town up north in sweden. I really miss the winter from up there and this time I tried to shoot as many kicksleds that I could find! they really remind me of my growing up there.

I’ve been shooting with my holga since the start of 2008, or more precisely, from christmas 2007, I was really taken when I stumbled upon the camera and some example shots. suddenly photographing could be something creative for me! not just recording a moment in time but more putting a grand and a bit strange feeling to the shots. with how simple the camera was I started pretty early to explore how I could modify it to better suit me. it was a feeling of relief since I’ve grown up thinking that you should always be very careful with a camera. this was whole mine and I was free to do whatever I wanted with it and shoot whatever I felt like. I was a bit shocked at first because of the cost to develop and make prints -specialy for black and white! so I’m really glad that I now have learned to develop myself. I have actually developed this shot as well with a tetenal c-41 kit (the film is velvia 50 by the way).

so yeah, I’ve got more cameras than I can remember right now but I always return to what started this film photography craze for me, my beloved holga

cheers!
/jonas soderstrom aka jojonas

Ernie Button

Riding Through Lishui

In 2009, I was invited to exhibit work from Cerealism at the Lishui International Photography Festival in Lishui, China. The people were welcoming, generous and seemed to truly appreciate that I had come to share my photography at the festival. After attending the festival’s opening ceremonies and the multiple exhibits around the city, I had an opportunity to explore. Armed with my Holga, I set off to explore the city of Lishui and the surrounding landscape.

During a previous photographic series, Back and Forth, I postulated that the coin-operated ride was disappearing from the urban landscape in the States, specifically Phoenix, Arizona where I live. What I found here in Lishui was just the opposite; a plethora of coin-operated grocery store rides dotting the urban landscape. The rides were flourishing, lining most of the streets that I ventured down. I’ve seen a fair amount of China and in my travels, I have seen a few rides in various Chinese cities, but nothing like what I saw in Lishui. I would openly (and jokingly) wonder if they were all being shipped from the USA right into Lishui, except that it is obvious that the rides are constructed of very different characters and animals than what I’ve seen in the US. I’m not sure what, if anything, the large number of coin-operated rides is saying about the city of Lishui, or what it says about our society vs. theirs, but it was a pleasant surprise seeing them after having spent the past decade documenting their disappearance from America’s urban landscape.

Ernie Button

Mel Bligh

Dave Dunne shows us his Holga work

I began shooting with a Holga in 2005 after discovering the camera on
Flickr. After a brief stint shooting with a dSLR, I was drawn to the
way the Holga images embraced the imperfections of the camera to
create a unique mood. So I ordered a camera online, painted the
inside, covered it in tape and the rest is history.

Today I have three Holgas. My original 120CFN. A Holgamods version
with close focusing and working aperture and a WOCA glass lens
version. The Holgamods camera is my main Holga.

I don’t have a formal background in photography and my day job is
completely unrelated but I have been photographing since the late
1980s. Shooting with a Holga brings me back to the days where the act
of taking the shot is just as interesting as the final image.

My Low Fidelity blog is at http://blurdotblog.com/ and more of my
Holga images can be seen on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davedunne/sets/1105210/

Marc Ilford

Lauren Holmes