In the early 2000’s I was introduced to the Holga 120 film camera, referred to as a “toy” camera because it was plastic, cheap and easy to use. It was first made in China in the early 1980s as something for the masses to play with. 

What attracts me most to the Holga is the distinct look and feel of the images it produces—mysterious, enigmatic, inconsistent, ambiguous. With Holga, I like to say, there’s a surprise inside every roll. Sometimes I’ll shoot an entire roll and only get two or three images worth keeping. But that’s okay. It’s not perfection I’m chasing, but a soulfulness, depth, a skewed nostalgia and strangeness that invokes something ineffable. 

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