Author: Barthélémy Longueville

Taking pictures, that's traveling around the world, carrying a notebook and a bunch of film rolls. That's the feeling of the old metal skin of my cameras. That's waiting for a picture to be revealed in the darkroom, remembering the sound of the shutter and bringing back all the universe when the picture was taken, faces, clouds, pieces of sky, unknown objects... I shot my first 10 rolls of film in China, last century. Probably there is the root of my path with photography. I cannot say this is the origin of all my inspiration but for sure these first films had a huge foot print. Since that time, I like walking anywhere with a camera, opening my eyes, driven by the environment. Sometimes it is even simply for the pleasure to discover, taking picture is an attempt to preserve a specific stream of feelings. That special instant when the shutter is released and the image start its life in my memory is often more important than the result itself. The photographs I like are carrying an atmosphere, a whole small world. I am proud to be part of BOP. Not only because our fellow members share a passion for analog cameras but because we like to spend the necessary time for things to be done and seen. We are not really working in the instant, we simply like to take our time and slowly prepare our exhibitions, from the first idea, the shooting, the processing, to the selection and exchanges with the other members.

“Alaotra, une vision partagée”, Arnaud De Grave exhibition at Magascar

2016/10/042016/10/04 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - News

Arnaud De Grave’s new exhibition is at the Institut Français de Madagascar. “Alaotra, une vision partagée” is produced with Rafalimanana Arifidy. Prints were produced, as always, by the excellent Le Pictorium – Atelier de tirage d’art de Christian Sauvan-Magnet

BOP partenaire du festival Aperçu à Lyon

2016/09/242018/02/17 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - News

L’association Opic lance officiellement son festival de photographie à Lyon, le Festival Aperçu!

BOP est l’un des partenaires et nos photographes y exposeront.

http://www.festival-apercu.com

du 3 au 30 Juin 2017

Sunlanders – book by Sean Lotman

2016/09/102016/09/10 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - NewsTags: book · bookstore · colour · darkroom · guest photographers · Japan · prints

Sean Lotman has published his new book, Sunlanders, which is available for pre-order with free shipping from Bemojake Bookstore. At BOP we love Sean’s work, his photographs will bring you in a distorted reality, with fascinating colors. They are memories from a parallel journey. Each photograph is hand printed in the darkroom and guys at Bemojake have reproduce with dedication the quality of Sean’s work.