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Lomography in Barcelona

Let’s travel back to Russia and the old city of Leningrad in 1982, at the end of the Cold War. The Russian general Petrowitsch Igor Kornitzky is showing off a brand new model of Japanese to the magnate of Russian cameras, Lomo. Soon after, the communists decide to build the model, but supposedly better. Thus was born the Lomo Kompakt camera that inadvertently became in charge of documenting the last vestiges of the communist era. The legend also states that the spies of the KGB used these cameras for capturing potentially interesting documents and as they did not require flash were ideal for working in the dark. Whatever was the case, the only thing we for sure is that every respectable Russian citizen had a Russian Lomographic camera in their home.

In 1991, shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall, a wave of Austrian art students took advantage of the opening up of Eastern Europe and went on holiday to Prague. There they discovered some Lomographic cameras. On developing the films inside the cameras they found a collection of photographs around the size of 10×15 with brown edges and faded colours. Some of them were blurred, others surprised the students with their bright colours, and others captured movement. What appeared to be a toy camera had become a social and cultural movement of the most experimental kind. The Lomographical society was then setup and its main objective was to promote this new philosophy and lifestyle. This Lomographic spirit tries to capture the spirit of our everyday lives and turn them into works of art. The result is surprising which also enables us to create all sorts of textures and colours, as well as awaken our hidden poetic and melancholic spirit or our more cheerful and witty personality.

The year 1994 arrived and the first exhibitions devoted to Lomographics simultaneously took place in the cities of New York and Moscow. Since then the movement spread throughout the world and Barcelona, a vanguard city par excellence, inaugurated its first Lomographic cameras store. Tucked away in a street in the lovely Born area of Barcelona we find the charming Lomoshop (c / 2 Mirallers left. Vigatans). The visit is almost mandatory for photography or art followers.

You will surely come out of the store with a Lomographic camera in hand, and you’ll be pushed to remember the exact moment you decided to buy as the packaging and designs of the cameras are simply irresistible. If you’re tired of the conventional photo album and you’d like to have an unforgettable memory of the city of Barcelona, we recommend that you get yourself a Lomographic camera, and start capturing the beautiful people of Barcelona, its mysterious streets of the old quarter, its emblematic monuments, the sea and its beaches through the lens of an original Lomo. Furthermore, it is not necessary to be an expert in photography; all you have to keep in mind is the golden rule of motion – always carry your Lomo camera and shoot!

Thanks to the wonderful climate and weather that Barcelona enjoys, it hands us the opportunity to walk and play around with our new camera. After a long day photographing the city you can relax in one of the best apartments in Barcelona. You will find many different options available at apartments in Barcelona.

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