Analog Holistic Photographer: What is it? How do I work? What are my tricks? Part 01

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I am a holistic filmphotographer, living half of the year on the road in The Bus. Today I start to lift the veil about how I find & make my pictures.

A picture starts with me being in an equilibric state of mind, driving around aimlessly, and ending up in some spot to spend the night. When I wake up next morning, I usually find myself in a picture (#holistic). I can already see it from my bed:

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So I gather all my (rather heavy) equipement, and lug it up on the roof:

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It takes me about 15 minutes to set up my camera. Then, after some time of fiddling, finding a good framing, some cigarettes and a lot of staring at the picture on the focussing screen, I take the picture on an almost A4 sized sheet of film. Very good quality, and very expensive.

After the process of developement and printing, which I will describe in one of my next posts, the print is finished, and after scanning and some small adjustements it's Voila! here's the picture:

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Bridge over the Gulf of Korinth, Scan from c-Print


In the next parts of this weekly series I will introduce you to:
*running an analog photolab on the road
*working with large format cameras (4x5 and 8x10)
*exhibitions, talks and interactions on the road
*tips & tricks of analog photography, experimental printing
*crossprocessing

Hope to see you on the road
Captain Klaus