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My first camera was a Kodak point-and-shoot for Christmas in the late 1980s. Somewhere in my childhood home, I am sure that prints with the LCD-stamp of the date are still floating around.

The first one I bought for myself is a Yashica A TLR that I found in a camera shop in college. In between I shot on my dad's old Pentax or my brother's EOS something-or-other. That Yashica was followed quickly by a couple of Holgas, which I still have. One was sacrificed to my kid's whims as a toddler, but the other I've kept in shooting condition, as much as a Holga can ever be said to be in shooting condition.

I still have and shoot that Yashica, alongside a Fuji  GS645 Pro folding rangefinder. Turns out I like shooting 120. I use a Fuji GFX 50S II or a full-spectrum converted X-Pro2 to shoot digital, although there was a Leica X2 in the mix for a while as well.

I am fascinated by the thin barrier between representation and abstraction. A different angle, a visual superposition, a closer look can all change the thing seen and represented.

I appreciate the pace imposed by old film cameras and manual focus lenses on digital. Limits breed creativity.