TALK: Creative Photography using Toy Cameras – Glenn Porter

Join us for an artist talk with exhibiting artist Glenn Porter.

The application of inexpensive cameras and the look they produce, has been a recent global sensation. This talk examines the creative opportunities for photographers using a range of inexpensive toy cameras and how this approach is used in art photography practice. This talk will appeal to various photographers at different levels of skill and experience including students. Whether you want to explore this type of work or examine other creative practice opportunities and concepts, the discussed topics will provide some conceptual thinking. The following topics will be covered:

• The global response to Lomography.
• Using Holga cameras: digital and analogue options.
• The Holga aesthetic: what is it and how does it operate in creative photography.
• Holga modifications.
• Photographers who shoot with Holga.
• Why it is not important to have in-focus images.
• Setting up film based operations at home.
• The concepts of wabi sabi and ikigai (Japanese wisdom).
• Developing projects and get shooting.

Glenn Porter Brockley Church 2021, Giclée on Hahnemühle Hemp archival paper