"...In a distant province, by the sea..."
Emir Shabashvili was born in a small town Yelabuga situated in now obsolete Republic of Soviet Tataria which was in turn part of country named Soviet Union, now also long gone...>>more...
Born in 1957 in Soviet
I have been using the media as an amateur for the most of my life and came to a serious photography in late 90s. But it had not become my passion until after moving from Russia to the USA I started the “Walking downtown” project related to the urban environments and to the interaction of humankind with the “machine” it build to “live in”.
The project had resulted in 2 books I have published:
“La Machine a Habiter”
"Selected photographs"
I have never stopped and still working today along the same lines.
The primary subject is an American downtown as a place where nothing considered to be permanent and indispensable, where people seem to be small and unimportant part of the structure, almost parasites in the huge body made of white metal, dark glass and artificial stone.
The only way one survives in this strange machine is by carrying a home, the real one – inside. We carry our homes like hermit-crab carries its shell. I know this because I am the one who still carries the same one‑story wooden house with extra attic room once been mine...
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So, what is it about the M2 that trumps the F5? I actually have both, and used the M2 with a wide (15mm) lens at f/22 and shutter stuck at 1/2 second and hand actuated flash to act as the actual shutter. I got the F5 to do things the 'right' way, with its sophisticated metering and good autofocus. I'm drying my first rolls of HP5+ with it right now, so I sat down to google the camera and came across your blog. Cool stuff, could you elaborate why you would like the M2 or F5 over one or the other?
ReplyDeleteI shoot in available light at night, ISO from 3200 to 12500, M2 is smaller than F5, and very quiet. It is also less shaky. F5 is big heavy beast. The lens I now use on M2 is 35mm f/2 Zeiss.
DeleteBessa R3M is another fine camera for night work, sometimes I use it instead of M2. Easier to load.