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A few collectives gave artists in Seoul, L.A. and Philly Lomo cameras and set them loose. The idea was to investigate — in 36 exposures — the way local architecture, physical spaces and urban environments shape the culture of a city and the lifestyle of its residents. The assignment was both liberating and stressful for Philly’s Ted Passon, who says in his artist’s statement, “[When] it dawned on me what it meant to only have one roll of film to shoot for the whole show … I started to get a bit nervous. There’s plenty of times when you just shoot a shitty roll and usually it’s no big deal because no one is going to see it.” In the end, Passon’s images reveal a Philly that we all know and love — row houses, cluttered apartments, birthday parties and corner bars…

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…Sales of digital and mobile-phone cameras show no sign of slowing, but with sites such as Squarefrog springing up all the time, it seems that the cult of Holga will only spread as more of us swap our technically superior cameras for quirky lumps of plastic that look like badly made toys. “Until film becomes obsolete, nothing will drag me back to digital,” Williamson says. “It just doesn’t do it for me any more.” (The Independent)

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