Fancy cameras make great pictures. (Yeah. The same way I need a $400 chef’s knife to make a great meal.) The Krappy Kamera Competition, founded by my friends Sandy Carrion & Mary Ann Lynch almost 20 years ago (and now an international phenomenon) celebrates the idea that it’s the photographer who makes the picture, not the camera. A “bad” camera in the right hands will always make better pictures than an $$ camera in the wrong hands.
“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.”
– Ansel Adams
Check out more of Sandra Carrion’s krappy work by clicking on the picture.
Shoot Holga? Diana? Pinhole? Toy camera?
Enter the contest. I’m looking forward to checking out your work!
I love “bad” cameras! my favorite camera is a Diana that needs tape and hardly even works, it takes some of the best pictures I have ever seen. im all about being open to the photographic as more an art than a science and welcoming some more mystery into what my camera makes.