Berlin Thru Analog Photos
While in Berlin, I joined up on a local film photo-walk meetup organized by Lomography and met a bunch of people walking around with film cameras hung over their shoulders. There seemed to be a resurgence in popularity for analog photography which I enjoyed..
We came across this while on the photo walk and joked about how quintessentially Berlin the sentiment was. Everything everywhere was always better last year.
I saw these photo booths in various places across the city - they had a nostalgic charm to them that attracted all sorts of folks. The physical realness and immediacy of experience offered by the photo booth is refreshing and exciting in our world of ephemeral social media distraction. I increasingly feel that the ubiquity of low effort digital photos that immediately disappear into vanishing void of the social media vortex is driving the resurgence of physical and analog media.
I found a lot of spaces like this across the city, where people could hang out and loiter with friends without the need to consume.
The tan/orange/blue aesthetic of this one felt very 1970’s to me. I wonder how long this one’s been around.
The same photo booth as above but later in the night. The soft glow of “Photoautomat” felt increasingly romantic as the night drew on.
One of my shots from the photo walk. The scooter was “locked” onto the bike rack but the lock didn’t actually loop through anything on the scooter. The whole scene had an “overlooked” feeling where people had clearly been present to create everything in the scene but none of the human influence felt recent. When was the last time someone walked through that door? Today? Last year? I couldn’t tell.