about tom

 

born: glasgow west end 1958

cameras:

kodak instamatic 25 approx 1968-73
no images are known to survive from this period
cosmic symbol 1975-1979
this was a great little camera with a tremendous lens. I used it with a leningrad 4 exposure meter
zenit e 1975-1979
blimey what a chunk
olympus om1 1979-2005
I’ve never been much of an equipment-stroker but I would stroke this. Eventually the lenses got fungus.

here I am in nineteen seventy something, in an attic bed/darkroom
flash in the hand
flash in the hand

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