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Box Camera NOW
by Lukas Birk & Photographers around the world

Box Camera NOWoffers a unique insight into a new generation of Box Camera photographers working on the street and studios with primarily homemade cameras. These rudimentary tools follow a history of street photographers who worked around the globe in parks and on street corners, creating cheap memorabilia and first-time photographic experiences for the masses.

These Box Cameras have many names in different languages Afghan Box Camera, Street Box, Camera Minuteros, Lambe Lambe, Cuban Polaroid, Instant Box, Minuite Camera, Kamra-e-faoree, Ruh Khitch, Foto Agita etc.

The concept is always the same: The camera, mostly home made, is used as an instant camera on the street or in parks to take pictures of clients passing bye. The box is camera and dark room at the same time and uses photographic paper as negative and positive.

The photographic history books have largely forgotten these type of photographers as it was the image of the poor and often considered as cheap photography by studio owners. Likely by historians as the cameras are individually made and do not follow any form of consecutive construction.

Box Camera NOW encompasses 54 photographers from 21 countries around the globe.
Each photographer with is own style and adaptation of Box Camera photography.
Each one with his own unique ability to turn light and sensitive paper into a memorable object.

With images by: Adrien Tache, Alain Paris, Aurlien de Saint Andr, Barbara Ghidini, Benoit Capponi, Cssia Xavier & Gustavo Falqueiro, Charlotte Guey, Chen Zi Wua, Clment Marion, Conrado Pinamonti, Low CQ, Damien Gautier, Daniel Robinson, Diogo Baptista, Ferdows Faghir, Flo Gales, George Papageorgiou, Gianni De Gregorio, Guillaume Koessler, Hans Zeeldieb, Irwandi, M. Fajar Apriyanto & Ade Aulia Rahman, Iris Chauveau, Jean-Michel Delage, Jeffrey Lim, Jorge Luis , Joshua Carroll, Justine Montmarch & Sbastien Bergeron, Landry Dunand, Leicester lo-fi photography, Luis Duarte, Maikel Plasencia Gonzlez, Malcolm Hutcheson,Marc Kairies, Marie Chaloyard, Mauricio Sapata, Mehdi Ndellec , Michal Mosset, Mitsu Maeda & Sono Aida, Oliver Zenklusen, Radilson Carlos Gomes, Rodrigo Abd, Steffen Diemer & Hannah Schemel, Tess Saunders, Thibaut Piel,Valentine Riccardi

Every time one of these photographer unfolds his or her tripod and attracts cliental with this unusual object its a performance.

Box Camera NOWalso offers a small guide on how to build and use a Box Camera as well as literature references for those who are intrigued by the subject.

Image Credits: Fraglich Publishing

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