Thodoris Markou 1/20/12 Thodoris Markou 1/20/12

ella-s fashion atelier

...a fashion photoshoot from early 2010.

spent last evening trying to organize my archive, and I came upon a photoshoot I had done for fashion designer ella-s. this was back in early 2010 and I wasn't too strong with analog then, so I went with digital for the main photoshoot. still, I snapped away one roll of black & white film with my mamiya c220 (this was also before I decided to clean it - during that process I screwed up the focusing plane... the camera is still out of order, I'm gonna have to send it for repair one of these days). there's no artificial lighting in these photos, I only used a reflector in some of them.

antonia kallimoukou is the wonderful model, I still remember her walking fully-dressed towards the grocery store in kolonaki and one woman exclaiming "my god, she's so beautiful". another guy mistook the whole wedding dress situation for a real wedding and wished her a full and happy life.

out of the 12 frames on the medium format roll, these came out nice...

...and here's the digital shots, for reference. now that I'm thinking about it, it's a shame I didn't shoot more film that day. I mean, I keep imagining the candle frames with film and they would have come out great... (to this day, I still can't choose between the two candle frames, so I'm presenting both.)

Thodoris Markou 3/17/11 Thodoris Markou 3/17/11

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)