Andre Easter's photostream  

"Born into a black and white world, my first box of crayons had Salt, Coal and 16 shades of grey."

I shoot B&W film in old cameras, mostly TLRs and large format press cameras. That is because I am too cheap to buy a new plastic mega-pixel modern marvel, and too old to change my wicked ways. I also love the older all-manual SLRs like the Nikon FM series, the Minolta SRT, and my recently acquired Chinon CX II.

Until the very last week of 2011, I did not own a digital camera, but as a product and industrial photographer I have been required to use one for a few years. If anyone really wants to know about my day job photography; I spend my workday shooting parts for scooters. Creatively, it is rather boring stuff for the most part, but it pays the mortgage. Indeed, of all professional photography jobs, the humble tasks of the product and industrial photographer may be the least glamorous of all.

This Flickr portfolio is not about my industrial photography, it is about my art. It is about what I see. It is about my world. It is about the fire in my belly. For that kind of photography --the kind that elevates my soul-- only B&W film will do.I think that the death of serious photography began when they started putting "modes" into cameras. How many f-stops do you give a mode anyway?

So now I find myself with a Nikon P7100 added to my collection of photographic tools. Although these are supposed to be the top of the line for compact cameras, I do not think that it will be replacing my FM2 or Rolleiflex any time soon. But that being said; the P7100 is a lot of fun.

Additional galleries with my work can be found here, here and here.

In case anyone is interested, here is a small industrial portfolio of my work for Monster Scooter Parts.


A short article I wrote about tapestry camera straps.

And another about my job as a product photographer.

"Only a stupid photographer needs a smart camera."