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10/22/2008 10:16:47 AM · #1 |
 So I was out yesterday shooting for the Street Photography challenge when I came across Filemon, a real street photography who has been taking and developing b/w portraits on the plaza of Santa Cruz, Bolivia for the passed 59 years. He has been using the same camera for six decades! He first takes a negative on paper, develops it in a developer and fixer bath inside the camera, mounts the negative on a board in front of the camera, makes another exposure, and then develops two positive images for the customer. He controls the shutter by removing the lens cap for "about one second." The two prints cost about $3.00US. While Filemon has been taking pictures on the plaza, the city has grown from a sleepy little hamlet of maybe 50,000 residents, into a chaotic city of over 1.5 million people. |
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10/22/2008 10:24:53 AM · #2 |
| That's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing. |
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10/22/2008 10:25:19 AM · #3 |
| Interesting observation. I lived in Mexico, Venezuela, and Brazil, and you used to see a couple of these photographers on every municipal plaza. I didn't know enough at the time to ask any questions, but I do remember that their equipment usually looked ancient. I'm glad some of them are still out there, but their numbers must be dwindling, fast. Thanks for sharing. |
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