Well it is if you’re into expressive and unconventional photography using real film. And it doesn’t get any more expressive and unconventional than when you use a Lomo camera.

These cameras started out in the 1980s as a chunky Soviet copy of a Japanese compact camera. When a group of Austrian art students stumbled on it and started literally shooting from the hip, they got some rather special looking results. Lomography was born.

(As a complete side note, Lomo production was safeguarded, and ramped up to meet its new international market, with the help of a deputy mayor called Vladimir Putin.)
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