Pamela Klaffke, a journalist, author , and a local fine art photographer, spoke to the CPS in February’s meeting and shared with us a number of her images.
Her images frequently featured serious light leaks, blur, extreme film grain and distorted colors; attributes which, were they submitted in our print competition, would normally draw fire from our panel of judges. However, it all really worked with her images. They were stunning. Much of her work involves surreal scenes and that subject matter really works well with her techniques.
She shoots film exclusively and uses toy cameras such as the now infamous Holga and a number of others including the venerable K1000 (decidedly not a toy), the Vivitar Ultrawide & Slim and the Vivitar IC101 Panorama. She is the first person I’ve heard of who (a) uses only expired film, (b) intentionally damages her film before use!
Pamela runs a large number of websites including her personal pages (and flickr), a serial-story project, a dollar store doll art project, and a number of websites dedicated to analog photography.