A photo made with my Rolleiflex TLR from 1950 : model K7A
aquatic nordic landscape – ©
Having said/posted that, maybe best if you search for the warm African portraits of Malick Sidibe, a master photographer who works/used to work with a similar medium format camera.
Anybody out there who works with a vintage-classic-antique Rolleiflex and uploaded some Rolleiflex work on the internet? Let’s hear from you !
rolleiflex
You may see some recent example of Rolleiflex in Africa (from Togo) at:
http://incidence.copperisle.com/
Best regards!
Vitaly, thanks for sharing. woh! quite something else where you are. I would not mind coming over with my TLR and do some shooting in your region. (nice change from nasty cold showers over here – NL/BE – I think my focus would be on African trees. Saw a photo of great tree taken by you.
B.T.W. I had never heard of PMK pyro. But just found this http://www.jackspcs.com/pmk.htm
Interesting.
I also looked up http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00EsOH
And I admit looking up info on Togo. Tres interessant aussi. Salut.
Juud, you are most welcome to come visit us in Togo with your Rolleiflex anytime! Beware that we may have rain here, too. But surely you will find it much warmer.
A couple of other photographers who have brought their Rolleiflexes to Africa are mentioned here:
http://incidence.copperisle.com/site.cgi?entry=2007.09.28_1
Best regards!
Greetings.
Wonderful images! I’m getting more and more drawn to Africa, as I would like to explore documentary photography and see for myself what Africa is about. The latter partly because of my job at ECDPM (mission in short : building effective political economic and developmental relationships between African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and Europe. Reinforcing the capacities of public, private and non-profit organisations in ACP countries). As I’m not a “field worker” I do not travel to Africa. But of course I follow all our projects and hear/see from colleagues.
I will share this link with ECDPMers : http://africanmoped.free.fr/indexen.html
One colleague will be especially interested. She cycled around the world for 2 years but only recently in Africa : Mali and Morocco.
Here’s the link to website of Belgian photographer who among other cameras also works with 30 year old Rolleiflex and makes brillant b/w portraits: http://www.stephanvanfleteren.com
Dreaming about doing photo projects of people and trees/nature in the South, in the near future and meeting keen and kind photographers 😉 …