Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, This is wonderful, thanks for showing these. I really like the portrait shot with the Olympus. And I don't care if you took it with your cellphone! Nathan Jim Laurel wrote: > Sein Win is my hero. He works with the most basic equipment, much of > it homemade, and most of all, he really loves photography. When I met > him, he was using an Olympus Pen half frame, which he liked, because he > could get almost 80 shots on a roll of 35mm film! I love one > particular sign on his lab, which reads: "A man inside to make color > print". ;-) > > I've been photographed by this guy and still have a few of the photos. > He is absolutely amazing and a kind, gentle fellow. > > Here are some shots of Sein Win, his Olympus Pen, his cool lab and his > family. These were taken around 1998. Most are video caps, so don't > be too critical on the quality please! ;-) > > http://www.spectare.com/gallery/seinwin/index.htm > > --Jim Laurel > > > On Jul 14, 2005, at 11:36 PM, Scott McLoughlin wrote: > >> Man, I'd love to party with this guy for a few months. I imagine it's >> amazing what one can do with one developer/one film same process >> day in and day out for a few years. >> >> Scott >> >> Christopher Williams wrote: >> >> >>>> From PMA news: >>>> >>> >>> "Burmese photographer uses traditional and homemade techniques for >>> tourist >>> snaps" >>> >>> >>> "Burmese photographer Sein Win has spent the last 35 years recording >>> tourists on 35mm film, the Bangkok Post reports. As tourists >>> approach the >>> Shwezigon Pagoda in Bagan, Burma, via a long covered walkway, they >>> encounter >>> Sein Win's darkroom among an array of souvenir stalls. Sein Win >>> comes out >>> clutching his 1970s vintage Ricoh camera. Within minutes, tourists are >>> shepherded into the grounds of the pagoda while Sein Win takes photos >>> against the golden spires. He takes seven shots, getting different >>> angles >>> and view points. Then it's off to the darkroom, a small wooden cubicle >>> measuring approximately a square metre. Here the seven frames of >>> film are >>> removed from the camera and wound into the spiral of his developing >>> tank. >>> Temperatures inside the room are frequently well in excess of 100 >>> degrees >>> Fahrenheit, which is why the film develops so fast, the article >>> says. The >>> hotter the chemicals, the shorter the developing time. Developed, >>> fixed, and >>> dried with a hair dryer in about three minutes. "See,'' he says, "no >>> computer, no minilab. Just me and my developing tank." >>> Then the strip of film is inserted into his homemade enlarger which >>> consists of a tin can containing a light bulb with a lens attached >>> to the >>> base of the can. Sein Win doesn't use a clock to time the exposures >>> or a >>> thermometer to measure the temperature of the developer. Both the >>> film and >>> the prints are developed in the same solution. Then, within another >>> three >>> minutes, just as the sign in the front of his cubicle claims, the >>> prints are >>> done to a turn, the article says. While the emulsion on the surface >>> of the >>> paper is still soft, he etches a personal message onto the image >>> with a nail >>> before the prints are dried with the hair dryer and presented to the >>> client." >>> >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com