Photo

Save for two cameras—a fuchsia Holga manufactured in 2016 and a DSLR I use to photograph my physical studio components, I use antiques. The phrase I tend to say is “The good thing about film photography is that everything has already been invented.” You don’t need to update your tech, because it all already exists!

Pictured here are just a few. All pictured are in acceptable working condition and while some get used far more than others (such as the Fuchsia Holga, the Stereo Pinholga, the Honeywell, the Nikkormat, and the 90s Rebel), Most of them were contributions from my photo professor in perpetuity, photographer named Mark Appling Fisher (whose work also using some of these cameras you could check out here). Oldest camera is a 1909 Brownie (cardboard box lookin’ guy up top row) to the Fuchsia Holga, from 2016.

This is Tom (the camera, not the man), the 8x10 Eastman View Camera No. 2-D, made somewhere in the 20s--30s. He’s pictured here with my husband and fellow photographer Jonathan Lambert. Tom got his name from his previous owner, Tom Fischer: a fabulous photographer and a spectacular professor from my husband and I’s grad school, SCAD.

For the past few years, I’ve been making do as far as studio is concerned. I’ve had a few opportunities to work in true darkrooms while on campus while in graduate school, but my bathroom has honestly been my best bet, for the most part.