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issue #2

online photography publication

editor / luis monteiro

contact/ dofzine@gmail.com

website/ www.dofzine.com

printed version/ www.dofzine.magcloud.com

cover/ who’s gathering?, minou*

backcover/ blured, luis monteiro

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/ contents4 / featured photographer minou*14 / showcase rolleicord33 / final thoughts the process...

/ featured photographer

minou*

Seeing the world through the lenses of a camera is an experience that pretty much everybody already had, but the point of such experience goes beyond the simple snapping of a photo. I like to think we experience a world of wonder through the camera even if we don´t take the shot.

:o :o, minou* 4

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6rendez-vous, minou*

nostalgia, minou*7

8pot melting in the light, minou*

Minou´s photos are somewhat of a portrait of life around us, and I´m not talking about life as in urban or human life, I´m talking about what goes around us that we don´t pay attention or... in worst case scenarios, don´t care...

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101C, minou*

in the autumn breeze..., minou*11

I found in her photos a sensible look and a nostalgic feeling over the objects that live among us. We might not notice but they are characters in our own day to day soup operas, in our movies, our musics and in our photos....

classroom without anyone, minou* 12

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14untitled, tiago rosado

/ showcase

rolleicord

My experience with a Rolleicord has been nothing less than love at first sight.

I got interested in this camera while searching for photos for DOF in Flickr, and as usual I came across some that got my attention. When I went to see why, I noticed that most of them had this special feeling and a common factor, they had been made with a Rolleicord.

I found mine on the internet through an auction website and being my first buy I decided to take a look at the goods before cashing out. I wrote to the seller and arranged a meeting for the next saturday. He lived about 100 km from my place in a small village down south, which meant I had to take the train, a bus and walk 2 km to his house, I was loving it already...I´m a sucker for train and bus rides, and walking... well, I won´t even start with that. Anyhow, I got there, on schedule, and ringed the bell. Then, this 80 plus year old, very rugged skin dutch gentlemen, opened the door and invited me in. He walked me to his carpeted living room and there I found her, among all the other old cameras laying around she was the one staring at me.

After a couple of hours of a very interesting conversation and some cups of tea, I left the house with my new camera. I was silent as I walked down the street, but shouting in my mind.

A new chapter had began...

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16start of my trip with rolleicord, minou* self-portrait, hirosurfuntitled, jasonsmithtx untitled, peter d. evan

17 untitled, jace crawford

18hallshallway, g. hardcastle

19 img297, fomin alexey

It‘s funny... but I always have this feeling that I‘m invisible when I‘m shooting with my Rolleicord, maybe it‘s the position from which you shoot, looking down at the viewfinder and all, or... it could be that everything looks so fantastic through it, as if you were somehow taken to this imaginary realm were everything is nostalgic, romantic and... beautiful.

20the old poles, sixbyfourfive

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22prefu, mastronardi

23 lugre, mastronardi

24dal basso, dama a corte

25 muted01, Jiang D

26one side tree, zoso74

27 after the rain, yuriko

28antique, yokasyo

I love old stuff, it‘s how they look, how they smell, how they were build... I don‘t know, I guess it‘s because I recognize life in the objects that surround us. I can only imagine the things they have seen and the stories they have to tell... if only we could talk to them, right?Well, I carry around my Rolleicord because she talks to me, every time I look down on her viewfinder I see glimpses of passed times, just like an old movie, characters come to life and for a couple of seconds I‘m time traveling.

29 antique, yokasyo

30b1, nilcyttocs

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thanks to all the contributing photographers.

4-13, 16 / minou* www.flickr.com/photos/72808443@N00/14-15 / tiago rosado www.tiagorosado.tumblr.com/16 / jasonsmithtx www.flickr.com/photos/stdjbs/16 / hirosurf www.flickr.com/photos/hirosurf/16 / peter d. evan www.flickr.com/photos/super-ape/17 / jace crawford www.flickr.com/photos/velvetsea/18 / georgina hardcastle www.flickr.com/photos/nauticalknickerbockers/19 / fomin alexey www.flickr.com/photos/iamfomin/

20-21 / sixbyfourfive www.flickr.com/photos/sixbyfourfive/22-23 / mastronardi www.flickr.com/photos/mastronardi/24 / dama a corte www.flickr.com/photos/dama-a-corte/25 / jiang d. www.flickr.com/photos/dicky_j/26 / zoso74 www.flickr.com/photos/zoso74/27 / yuriko www.flickr.com/photos/pikapikapika/28-29 / yokasyo www.flickr.com/photos/bagwell/30-31 / nilcyttocs www.flickr.com/photos/nilcyttocs/

all images published in DOF magazine are sole property of the contributing photographers. no image may be copied or reproduced without the express permission of it‘s owner.

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/ final thoughts

In the step of going from film to digital there‘s a lot that gets lost in translation, especially when all automatic modes kick in. I found myself thinking that I would take care of that detail later at home in post production... I‘m not saying that‘s wrong, I have discussed this topic quite thoroughly and you can always compare it to all the development techniques used long before any computer ever existed, but for me, I don‘t want to find myself in that process. So I decided it was time for some old school stuff.

The process of photography is an artistic expression, one that needs as much attention as it needs dedication. In this sense, shooting with film brings along a lot of that attitude, and there‘s nothing like an all mechanic fully manual camera to get you to think in photographic terms.

Having a Rolleicord makes me experience photography in a way I hadn‘t in a long time. I‘m now much more selective about what I photograph, if not because I‘m more aware of what I want, then because I have to make those 12 shoots count.

Another thing that is inherent to this kind of photography is the fact that you can‘t have the result right after, you can‘t even preview it, you have to wait to finish your film and then develop it. Something that could take from a few days to a couple of weeks, can you imagine that? Waiting weeks to see your photos, how long was that?

For me it‘s all part of the process and I can‘t put to words you how much fun it is to go to the lab, pick up a couple of envelops and sit down in a nice cafe and flip through those squared prints... priceless.

the process...by luis monteiro

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