David Campany – ‘a Handful of Dust’

David Campany’s book a Handful of Dust is (unbeknownst to me when I purchased it) a catalog that accompanied his exhibition at LE BAL in 2015/16, titled ‘a Handful of Dust: from the Cosmic to the Domestic.’ Would that I had been through Paris during that time, and known about the exhibition: this book is …

the LC-A Instant Back+ and a (re)discovery

Along with the Diana Mini, the box that arrived from Lomography back in early April also held an LC-A Instant Back+… Fun! And if you’re confused about exactly what an LC-A Instant Back+ is and what it does (Mom was), after a considerable amount of fiddling about, it replaces the film door on the LC-A …

HP5+ flora

So after fried pies and Irving Penn and all my wife’s good cooking—MashaAllah, my darling, adorable wife is a magnificent cook—Mom headed back home, I went back to work, and the cameras still had HP5+ hanging out in them. I burned through the rolls as fast I I could stand to, which wasn’t very fast. …

HP5+ goes to Dallas

After a belly full of fried pies and a driving tour of Denton County, naps, a wonderful dinner, and a good night’s sleep, Mom and I went in to Dallas to wander the Clyde Warren Park catch the Irving Penn exhibit. In tow was, once again, the Diana Mini and the Nikon FE, both with …