TtV
Through the Viewfinder (TtV) photography gives life to old cameras through the use of contemporary technology. The technique involves using a digital camera to shoot through the small viewfinders of old twin lens reflex cameras. The viewfinders in these antique cameras are often dirty, scratched and discolored. Therefore, the digital output not only records the subject matter but the viewfinder’s distortion as well. In essence, this unique distortion is each camera’s fingerprint and it is visualized as a overlaying texture filter. Each viewfinder has it’s own voice, it’s own story, it’s own unique view to the past. These old cameras create a bridge for different histories to be applied to subject matter of the present.
