in the early 1990s a couple of students discovered a small, enigmatic russian camera, the Lomo Kompakti Automat, and created a new style of artistic experimental photography with their first unorthodox snapshot cavortings. The approach: taking as many photographs (Lomographs) as possible in the most impossible of situations possible and having them developed as cheaply as possible. The result is a flood of authentic, coulourful, crazy, off-the-wall, unfamiliar and often brilliant snapshots. These are mounted on panels to form a sea of thousands of Lomographs which regularly astonish viewers with their sheer colourfulness, diversity and power of expression.
Exhibitons, interactive projects, events and live visual performances have been the most significant forms of Lomographic communication for twelve years: The images, provided by ametures and visitors to the event, combined with the space, the exhibition architecture, the interactive programme and the international communication have become hallmark of Lomograhic projects.
where is all this going?
The Lomogrpahic society is busy beavering away with hundreds of thousands, soon to be millions of Lomograhers, on and n, on the perpetually ongoing Lomographicsysiphus projetc: the Lomography planet around us in a never- ending stream of a visual diary by various individuals and from different culturs- the ongoing and still growing biggest snapshot portrait of the planet.
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