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Question:
Name: Craig A.
You obviously move in a rarefied photographic atmosphere. What do you do with a Holga and why do you bother with a piece of "junk"?

Answer:
Dear Craig,

Thank you for your question, although I beg to differ with you about the Holga being a "piece of junk". It is a tool just like any other form of making images from a pin hole to a view camera or today's digital cameras. The art comes from you and what you make with the tool.

My photographic atmosphere is not so "rarefied". Just that of a dedicated photographic artist to her profession and choices. Personally my work with the Holga is for the pleasure of "seeing the possibilities" but I don't consider myself a Holga artist. I use it to play. I have many colleagues that do make beautiful art with the Holga and perhaps you will find the time to visit the work of Kit Frost at http://www.kitfrost.com/holgaworld.html or view images in "The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes" by Christopher James. There you will see many alternative processes and possibilities.

If I hand a Holga to a student, it is to help them see and think differently and perhaps start them down a path with that camera or their conventional camera they may not have considered. And, it is fun. Some days we just shouldn't take ourselves so seriously.

--Elizabeth