Last year The Holgasnake gave me my first holga. For about a month it sat on my shelf. It had been years since I had touched a film camera, and my last digital camera was so bad, that I had stopped taking pictures all together. And then one day Ms. Holgasnake came over, took the holga out, showed me how to load film, post on flickr, and pushed me off the diving board into a whole new life. Seriously.

The Holgasnake is also one of my favorite photographers. She has this uncanny ability to give the most banal object a haunting beauty. Her street shots of Los Angeles are like no other and she is a master of the double exposure. We can all learn a lot from The Holgasnake, I know I have.

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