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“[T]he real victim of fast photography is not the quality of the photos themselves. The victim is us. We lose something else: the experiential side, the joy of photography as an activity. And trying to fight this loss, to treat photography as an experience, not a means to an end, is the very definition of slow photography.
Defined more carefully, slow photography is the effort to flip the usual relationship between process and results. Usually, you use a camera because you want the results (the photos). In slow photography, the basic idea is that photos themselves–the results–are secondary. The goal is the experience of studying some object carefully and exercising creative choice. That’s it. “
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Nice link (and nice further links from there). I have a new slow-photography toy, a medium-format pinhole stereoscopic camera (Holga, naturally), and am in the process of retraining myself from the bad habits (while trying to retain the good ones) my digital SLR has enabled.