Photo downshifting: a Muscovite has been shooting with a push-button Siemens for three years, and people like it

Since 2015, there has been a community of "photos on Siemens" in the VKontakte social network: Muscovite Andrey Kritsky publishes his photos taken on weak phone cameras of the early 2000s there.

Source: Tjournal

Kritsky told Tjournal how the idea of the public came about: in 2012, his friend was dismantling the warehouse of a closed electronics store and offered him an external camera for Siemens phones. To use the device, Kritsky bought a Siemens S55, the company's first color phone, released in 2003.

Now the creator of "photos on Siemens" has four Siemens and Alcatel OneTouch 757 phones with cameras from 0.3 to 1.3 megapixels. At the same time, Kritsky says that he hasn't taken off his semi-professional DSLR for three years.

Kritsky calls his work digital primitivism and fundamentally does not process images.

According to the author of the community, he was offered several times to do photo shoots on old phones, but he refused: "The principle of non-commitment is important in a hobby, and what could be worse than when a hobby turns into a craft."

In VKontakte, Kritsky has two more communities dedicated to photos of poor quality.

The authors of images for the DIGITAL LOW public sometimes create such an effect using maximum approximation and scanography (scanning images and objects and subsequent processing in photo editors).

In the VISUAL LOW community, other people's pictures from old devices found on photo hosting sites are published.