James Rohan: Wide Awake in Dreamsville and Hints of Civilization

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James Rohan: Wide Awake in Dreamsville and Hints of Civilization

Jim Rohan’s wonderful toy camera images will be front and center at RayKo’s 7th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show.  Jim is the celebrated artist and he will be exhibiting a selection of his work when the show opens on March 5th.  As a long t

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In 2008, for reasons still unclear to Jim, he picked up a plastic camera to better understand where he was both geographically (he does take a lot of snow pictures) and emotionally (this could explain this year’s postcard image of the man resembling Saint Sebastian full of arrows). Six years later, he still finds himself using plastic cameras, like Holgas and Dianas* and Brownie Hawkeyes and an Agfa Isoly with a flipped lens (and all sorts of other crappy cameras that you never knew existed).