In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets – Jonas Mekas
The NOMO app has an assortment of interesting cameras. Many aren’t worth a second look, some are gimmicky, some, like the half-frame PEN I use for fractured landscapes, are useful. Some can simply be a blast to play with once in awhile.
This is one of those. In 1956 a Chinese company, Tianjian, introduced a simple medium format camera they called Happiness Type 1. The name is a bit cheesy if you ask me, but hey – I like the color.
In common with many photographers, I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this too belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.
Robert Adams from his book ‘What Can We Believe Where?’
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