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another film swap

...Bosporus and Marousi vs Kastoria, in this medium format film swap.

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...and the film swapping goes on.I shot two films with the Holga in December 2009, one in Bosporus and one in Marousi then I sent them over to mr. Akis. He shot them again a month ago with his Lubitel, in Kastoria, and here are the results.

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new greek wave, cinema magazine, issue 219

...on november 2010 I did a number of portraits for issue 219 of cinema magazine, together with dear marina nalbanti, mostly using lomography cameras.

On November 2010 I did a number of portraits for issue 219 of Cinema magazine, together with dear Marina Nalbanti. The article, aptly named "New Greek Wave", was about new people appearing in Greek cinematography, directors, writers, producers, a total of 77 persons being interviewed across 40 pages in the magazine.

In order to keep a consistent style through all the portraits, we settled on using our Holga & Diana medium format cameras. However, I decided to bring along my Mamiya C220 since it is always nice to have a real camera, with selectable shutter speeds and a fast lens, as a backup to the quirky lomography beasts.

I kept all these photos in my archive for quite a while and now, with the next issue of Cinema magazine about to be published, I thought it was high time to select a few and post them in my blog. Some of the portraits are double - I was taking photos both with the Holga/Diana and the Mamiya, and by looking at the totally different feeling each camera can create, there's only one thing that can be deduced: the best camera is the one you're taking pictures with.  

(christos karakepelis)

(stelios charalambopoulos)

(gerasimos rigas)

(marco gastine)

(alexis kardaras)

(panos karkanevatos)

(stratos tzitzis)

(babis makridis)

(giannis fagkras)

(giannis oikonomidis)

(aliki danezi-knutsen)

(antonis kokkinos)

(anestis charalambidis)

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film swap

more than a year after my first film swap, the game is on again.

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more than a year after my first film swap, the game is on again.loaded the Holga with a roll of HP5, shot it all in the space of 1 hour, rewound it, handed it over to mr. ostanine. two weeks later, the resulting photos came in, and they look good.

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dreamy paris

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...and the trip to the past continues.

these photos were taken during my february '09 trip to paris - the holga is quite a nice monster if you want to create something out of nothing. ok, this ain't exactly nothing, but really, it isn't much. if I had used the bronica - well, I did use the bronica and I don't really like the results - too sharp, too good, too down-to-earth. let's be dreamy.

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