KANTA Portraits: PHOTO BOOTH; Market day

2016-03-27

PHOTO BOOTH; Market day

EVENT; more a 'show & tell' than an Instant Booth, we'll probably only make 5-7 portraits this time round. It's also a training session for a photography-major at handling the Kamra.

Flashback to Analogue, photography event https://m.facebook.com/events/174612536246746/ REPOST @batteryacidclub - Dear all film-photography enthusiasts, Come and join us our next event 'Flashback To Analogue' this coming 27th March, Sunday that embraces the magic of analogue photography. Spend time trading ideas, discuss with fellow analogue photography enthusiasts, or just to expand your collection. Free admission. Everyone welcome!

Huda, apprentice and Kamra-woman in the making! couldn't have done today without you. hope the hands on experience was good practical training. You've got it, now go make that portrait series.

promo poster

prepping the sitters

First print is a wild card,
it either comes out really
noisy, but this time I think
this is pretty good. Aiman,
thanks for participating

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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2016-03-27

PHOTO BOOTH; Market day