Every year, our friends at RayKo in San Francisco sponsor a plastic camera competition. It's open to artists anywhere in the world who are working with plastic cameras with plastic lenses. As they say, "The more obsolete, flawed, and lo-tech, the better. Beautiful prints from less-than-gorgeous cameras — that’s what we’re looking for! "
All of the winners get the chance to be part of a group exhibition at the RayKo Gallery — by far the biggest show of the year.
We're happy to show some of the highlights from last year's winners here in this slideshow.
And if you use plastic cameras with limited controls, such as Diana, Holga, Lubitel, Lomo, Banner, and Ansco, consider submitting your best work. The Call for Entries is open now for the 2014 competition. Deadline for Submissions: January 7th, 2014.
Enter the RayKo 7th Annual Plastic Camera Show! »
United by binary contrasts—the public and the private, the political and the personal, light and shadow—the winners and finalists of this preeminent prize combine to create a powerful exhibition.
With offerings ranging from curation by the Dutch legend Anton Corbijn to emerging Japanese photography and African portraiture, this year's Unseen Photo Fair & Festival promises to be as diverse and eclectic as ever.
(1820-1884) was the most important photographer of the Second Empire in France. He initiated a new way of seeing, and his students went on to pioneer styles of photography that seem startlingly modern 160 years later.
Using a unique chlorophyll printing process, these appropriated civil war portraits offer a lyrical reflection on the grave costs of war.