Enter the PinBox

Robert Hamm’s Hamm Camera Company‘s first Kickstarter was the NuBox 6×9. I backed it, and am happily waiting for it to arrive.

In the mean time, their second Kickstart appeared: the PinBox, a $20 heavyweight paper/thick cardboard medium format 6×6 pinhole camera, and, well, why not?

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Tony Fouhse – ‘After the Fact’

In After the Fact, Tony Foushe attempts to capture “the feelings of anxiety that lurk behind the facade of the everyday… to our increasing uncertainty and fear and to the changing political and physical climates that we find ourselves in these days.” I think he succeeded.

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Polacon 3!

If you’re unfamiliar, Polacon is an annual Instant Film Convention, held the first weekend of the State Fair of Texas, mostly in Denton. I totally missed the first one, didn’t even know about it. I made the photowalk in downtown Denton on the second day of the second one, and was absolutely committed to making the third one in full. After all, with lectures and demonstrations on everything from tintypes to travelogues, photowalks, raffles, and loads of good people, over three full days, right in my backyard, how could I miss it?

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Noah Waldeck – ‘Instant Winter’

Winter is a strange concept. Up in central Illinois and out on Long Island, it’s obvious: clouds roll in, cold winds blow, snow piles up and gets bulldozed into disgusting grey mountains that persist well into the spring. But down here in Texas, and depending on the year, there might not be much difference in weather from November all the way through to April: the sun keeps shining, maybe temperatures drift into the 60s or 70s, maybe we see a bit of ice in February or some snow in April that melts off by 10am, but otherwise, it’s closely identical with the summer, just not quite so hot.

From Noah Waldeck’s Instant Winter: Michigan and Instant Winter: Florida, it looks like winter, as a concept, pretty much the same there.

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