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Kalloosh's photostream
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"The best part of us is not what we see, it's what we feel. We are what we feel. We are not what we look at . . .. We're not our eyeballs, we're our mind. People believe their eyeballs and they're totally wrong . . .. That's why I consider most photographs extremely boring - just like Muzak, inoffensive, charming, another waterfall, another sunset. This time, colors have been added to protect the innocent. It's just boring. But that whole arena of one's experience - grief, loneliness - how do you photograph lust? I mean, how do you deal with these things? This is what you are, not what you see. It's all sitting up here. I could do all my work sitting in my room. I don't have to go anywhere."
-Duane Michals
I shoot mainly with an unmodified Holga and increasingly with my iphone, but sometimes with a Zero Image 69 pinhole or a Ricoh Caplio GX100 digital.
Kalloosh's favorite photos from other Flickr members (896)
Contacts (225)
Groups (50)
- Oregon Coast - a Flickr group 27,036 photos, 2,598 members
- The Rights Exposure Project 38 photos, 9 members
- low-fi fine art photography 101 photos, 23 members
- Desert Decay 2,318 photos, 844 members
- Inappropriate use of the map 104 photos, 12 members
- iPhoneur 3,422 photos, 57 members
- palermo, sicily 446 photos, 52 members
- Hipstamatic 204,483 photos, 14,287 members
- Hipstamatic Chicago 607 photos, 40 members
- Photographs with unreasonably long names 120 photos, 28 members
- markets 23,371 photos, 2,092 members
- decluttr 527 photos, 100 members
- Jerusalem 12,053 photos, 887 members
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre 140 photos, 37 members
- Holga History 639 photos, 92 members
- nature désolée [film only please] 1,893 photos, 174 members
- : A Sense of Place : 137 photos, 97 members
- querulous 66 photos, 11 members
- Asgemi 491 photos, 136 members
- ╠Art Libre-Free Art-Arte Libre-Freie Kunst-INVITED PIX ONLY 48,903 photos, 7,868 members
- Halab حلب الشهباء Aleppo Syria 1,487 photos, 113 members
- Music Box Theatre Photos 342 photos, 29 members
- Lo-Fi Chicago 1,099 photos, 75 members
- **Graf Space** Middle East 1,416 photos, 89 members
- simple as fuck 2,479 photos, 2,575 members
- Suburban Subculture 246 photos, 17 members
- * Middle Eastern Graffiti, Street Art, and Public Activism 11,729 photos, 1,407 members
- Commingling 67 photos, 34 members
- St. George, Utah 593 photos, 54 members
- Anatomy of Restlessness 1,613 photos, 187 members
- Wisconsin Urban Exploration 1,127 photos, 118 members
- Humboldt Park, Chicago 743 photos, 68 members
- Paper Back Numbers 738 photos, 158 members
- Syria Historical Sites 10,626 photos, 289 members
- Memory and Desire 5,517 photos, 388 members
- Tri-X 320 1,307 photos, 216 members
- HOLGA -B&W- (Black & White 120film shots only) 44,996 photos, 5,148 members
- Postbox 2,208 photos, 275 members
- Ricoh Caplio GX-100 14,094 photos, 527 members
- IPHF- International Photography Hall of Fame 533 photos, 277 members
- Lawrence University 311 photos, 31 members
- RICOH GX100 Square 6,708 photos, 314 members
- Holga Architecture 7,241 photos, 1,075 members
- You Are Beautiful 220 photos, 103 members
- Foma Film 11,115 photos, 1,082 members
- Bergger 200 64 photos, 12 members
- cafe 29,645 photos, 4,838 members
- Damascus 4,535 photos, 392 members
- Chicago-Alt 5,978 photos, 261 members
- Paste-Ups-Only 16,441 photos, 512 members
Galleries (4)
- Windows - Color 18 photos
- Windows B+W 14 photos
- . . . women. 18 photos
- Dark Flora 15 photos
Testimonials (8)
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...cathzilla says:
"That's official, now :
*I love her*
She makes me dream... & nothing is more precious"21st May, 2008
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[kren] says:
"This is one of the few streams in which I feel "at home". I'm glad she's around so that I don't feel alone."
10th November, 2007
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felmagalhães says:
"plus de lumière!!!!
if only kalloosh were around to listen to goethe's very last desire..."27th February, 2007
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mickey1 says:
"""you are an inspiration"""
11th October, 2005
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efo says:
"Kelly's images seem to be about memory and longing, but mostly, she just has a damn good eye."
9th May, 2005
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sam_ says:
"It has often been said that the person behind the camera is more important then the camera itself. Owing expensive gear won't make anyone a good photographer. Being able to capture the ordinary in an interesting way; to draw the viewer in by looking at the world differently is some of what makes for good photographs. Kelly's work is an outstanding example of someone with a gift for photography. Shooting most often with one of the cheapest cameras available, the classic Holga, she is able to produce remarkable images. There is a lot to be said for someone who can do this and I feel fortunate to have been exposed to her work."
30th December, 2004
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drp says:
"I am a big fan of Kelly's work. It does seem to transcend the real into that ethereal world of dreams and enlightenment. Yes, it's a religious experience for your eyes. Come and worship, won't you?"
17th December, 2004
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venegas says:
"making the real vanish into memories and dreams, she is the most generous of inspirations."
15th December, 2004
- Name:
- Kelly McCracken
- Joined:
- November 2004
- Currently:
- New York, NY
- I am:
- Female











