amla's photostream

amalphotography.blogspot.com/

original signed prints and enlargements available for purchase

I've been shooting film for a while but just picked up a digital and learning to be well rounded in many different 'genres' of photography. stories, strangers, documentary is what i enjoy the most.

i'm self taught.

cameras i use/d:
lubitel 166 medium format russian
mamiya 645 pro
kiev 60 medium format russian slr (broke)
minolta x700 manual slr (broke)
olympus xa
nikon d70 dslr

Please don't use my photos without permission from me.

"Like guns and cars, cameras are fantasy machines whose use is addictive. The camera-gun does not kill, so the ominous metaphor seems to be all bluff. Still, there is something predatory in the act of taking a picture. To photograph people is to violate them by seeing them as they never see themselves. By having knowledge of them they can never have. It turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as the camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a sublimated murder. A soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time."
said by Foucault or Sontag (not sure)