KANTA Portraits: POST PROJECT;

2015-10-25

POST PROJECT;

After project completion, been trying hard to put together prints for an exhibition. There are planning and budgeting trying to pull off a showcase of the portraits taken. Its proving hard with my limited time and self-funding, but it will come. I'm also trying to expand artistically not only the functionality of the kamra, but my approach to this medium with some explorations.

pic* arrival of optical filters for some exploration work. also new shelf to house the kamras 3rd Nov; another parcel arrives, this time a flash light meter, sekonic L308DC. time to purchase my own, returned loaned light meter to Vig, thanks a million. studio 25's first ever digital light meter! although no time at the moment to open to test until sometime in December. Till then :)

new flashlight meter– (RM 670)

tricolour separators (RM 250+)

my new shelf rack to store kamras

camera workstation

Jeffrey JC Lim

Jeffrey Lim’s exploration into photography started with the family’s point & shoot film-camera and the stories behind their black & white photographs. It was later in art school that he discovered the magic of the darkroom and explored deeper into the craft of image-making & printing.

He started experimenting with self-made box cameras utilising pinhole and lenses, and also explored using century-old box cameras, crossing between different mediums and methods to producing an image. At the same time, he started researching his family’s roots through interviews and photographs.

After watching the Afghan Box Camera Project video in 2011, he was inspired to design and build variants of the Kamra. Starting the project Kanta Box Kamra, he built the first four prototypes. He then developed new techniques in reproduction & printing after visiting the exhibition Retrato Popular, Sesc Belenzinho, and studying the Lambe-Lambe cameras of Brasil, he built several other prototypes.

In 2017, he started Kanta Portraits to explore the concepts of identity and the national-construct. Travelling to different parts of the region and many different indigenous communities, he recorded their narratives and in return, gave instant portraits. He is currently archiving the portraits and reflecting on the journey in the hopes of producing an exhibition and publication.

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2015-10-25

POST PROJECT;