Contemplating Time: Charlotte Rea's Latest Work with the LomoKino

Time is ever so fleeting. Moments become memories within the speed of light. It is a large, unanswered concept of the human experience that many artists have been intuitively drawn to explore throughout the ages.

London-based photographer Charlotte Rea emulates this fleeting experience of life in an ongoing project using stills from the LomoKino. Playing around with the illusions of time, she captures sequences that have seemingly disappeared from the present moment, and allows viewers to slowly observe what was once just a quick happening.

Let's take a look at Charlotte's work and hear more about her artistic process!

Hi Charlotte, welcome to Lomography Magazine! Can you start off by telling us a bit about yourself and your work?

My name is Charlotte, and I’m a photographer and artist based in London. Though my focus is often portraits, I’ve spent the past year working on several digital art and analogue photography projects exploring time, physicality, and permanence. This in-progress series using the LomoKino is part of that body of work.

What made you pick up the LomoKino?

I saw a still posted by another photographer and was instantly hooked.

Can you tell us about what you've been shooting with the LomoKino?

I’ve been shooting simple, quiet moments spent with friends. I tend to carry the camera around in any bag I have on hand, and bring it out at the end of a visit to remember the moment. I've used exclusively black & white film for this series to emphasize form and contrast.

A lot of your work consists of still imagery. How do 35 mm movie stills compliment your workflow and style?

While most use the Kino to create video clips or single stills, I prefer instead to display the still images captured together in their original series in full relation to one another. This allows a viewer to observe time rather than experience it, to inspect each instant while appreciating the swooping arch of a sequence. The individual components of a moment can be thrown into stark relief – simultaneously venerating each as a treasure worthy of capture, and degrading it as but one in a cascade. I feel this way about nostalgia and time, and experience a duelling panic and dismissal in its passage.

Do you have a favorite sequence of shots from the LomoKino?

My favorite sequence is one of my friend James pacing back and forth before a window. I love the vertical curve created by his movement and see it as an ideal example of a higher artistic value that the Kino, traditionally seen as a “toy” camera, can achieve.

Do you have any tips or tricks for the camera?

My one tip is to always make sure that the shutter crank is locked into place before shooting. I did not realize this was necessary at first, and my first Kino roll was mostly blank as a result!

Do you have any upcoming projects or shoots that you can share?

This series is still in progress, and I will be continuing to build it in preparation for a larger release alongside digital art I am creating in the same vein.

Thanks Charlotte for sharing your work with us! Check out her Instagram and website to stay up to date on her latest projects.

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