Lomo World Congress

Last week I was at the Lomo World Congress, on the crew. It was a crazy week, and I spent most of it running around London, helping with stuff and sorting things out. In Trafalgar Square, we had a huge LomoWall containing 100,000 images taken by Lomographers from all over the world. They’ve been collected and selected from submissions over the last year, and it’s amazing to see them all together. I spent some time putting up panels, and ended up putting up a couple of my own! It was pretty great seeing people looking at your photos and talking about them, and even better seeing them next to other Lomographers’!

In case you don’t know – Lomography is an artistic approach to snapshot photography which started with a little 35mm Russian camera called an LCA (Lomo Compact Automatic, or more correctly a Lomo Kompact Automat). There are now loads of Lomographers all over the world, creating images, and sharing them via their LomoHomes on the Lomography.com site.

We had a week of events, workshops, meals, receptions, talks and plenty of alcohol. I hardly got any sleep through the week, but met an amazing, creative, enthusiastic and fun bunch of people from every corner of the world, and I feel really lucky to have been a part of it.