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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Australian Local Feature lomographer----Lisa Marshall

Lisa Marshall is a local artist and lomographer. She won the photography prize a year ago for the Royal Easter Show with a lomography photograph. Her 14 years old daughter Ina also won prize of the children lomography competition. We could have chance to interview both of them because our classmate Michelle is a very close friend of Lisa and they share interests in lomography. Thank you Michelle again.

Lisa tells us that her background is printmaking and some kinds of art creativity stuff and being a photographer, especially lomographer is more recently thing. It starts from her third year of visual arts university degree and her subject is almost about her daughter Ina, her change from childhood to adolescence. Hence, her subjects of lomography become more diverse like specific shows, people performances, statues and especially animals. She says that she always try to do something a little bit quirky and different with lomo camera. She loves accidental and surprise things. Lisa makes an example of her favourite lomo photograph to explain that. It is a black and white photograph with shadowy vignette corners and the subject is only a brush turkey stands at the center of fisheye circle. Lisa says she is very surprised by this brush turkey suddenly come to her backyard and then she decides to keep this fabulous accident in her lomo camera. This might be related to her own perspective about the difference between lomography and common digital ones.


Lisa apparently prefers film camera, especially lomo camera rather than digital ones. She explains that digital cameras are more usually for documenting or convenient purpose and they are also undoubtedly important to photographers. However, the film cameras are good at shooting landscape, background stuff and you will surprised what you will get when you get film back, it is unexpectable. Besides, Lomo cameras are more focus on composition or the moment, you are not trying to document something, maybe you just get down the floor and try to get funny angles.

Actually Lisa introduces many her works about her daughter Ina during our interview and every time Lisa is smiling and looking at Ina, Ina always get blush and lower her head. This emotional expression of Lisa and Ina very impresses us a lot, and it also help to prove my opinion of photography is that we could certainly feel the emotion and relationship between the “subject people” and photographer from looking at a specific photograph. There is one of Ina’s photos I really love is that she wears red skirt and imperial crown like a little princess, and sits by the mirror, the camera captures both sides of her. All colors in this photo are extreme rich and Ina is not strictly in focus which looks a little bit fuzzy. Lisa says this photo is not planned and this kind of fuzzy, accidental stuff works very well in lomography style.

Lisa admits that lomography somehow shapes her life like makes her daily live become more interesting and lets her has great timing, more passionate on travelling. She says she like taking time on one certain thing, even sometimes the result goes bad but the good one always worth taking risk.

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