Models, athletes and TikTokers shun phone cameras as 35mm sales surge and a new
Pentax film camera is launched
This week, a new range of Google smartphones capable of AI image generation has
been launched. But for an increasing number of people, the appeal of a less
cutting-edge piece of equipment is proving hard to resist: the point-and-shoot
camera.
The US footballer Megan Rapinoe was seen snapping from the stands at the Paris
Olympics. The model Alexa Chung captioned a recent Instagram of her with a
camera: “Just another Millennial with a dependency on Snappy Snaps, fighting
digital threat with an analogue mode. ” A recent glimpse of home-life for
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky showed a disposable camera lying among the clutter. Kim
Kardashian and Taylor Swift have both been snapped holding their
point-and-shooters.
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The New Zealand-born photographer was planning to take a portrait of a farm
owner when two animals caught his eye
For the last two years, Mark Aitken has been working on a photo series in
Lapland. “It’s called Presence of Absence,” he says, “and it explores the
liminal and sometimes uncanny boundaries between life and death experienced by
people living in this extreme climate and landscape.”
Aitken, who was born in New Zealand, raised in South Africa and has lived in
London for years, took this photo in spring of this year, on a sheep farm.
“Kukkola is a borderland hamlet in Finnish Lapland on the River Tornio, near
Sweden. The farm has been running for 20 years and this lamb is one of about 100
born in March and April,” he says.
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