My Hasselblad and Me

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Worldwide | Thursday, September 2, 2010 | 5 photos

Earlier this year, my girlfriend and I traveled from Nairobi to Cape Town over a duration of two months. We made our way by using public transport only, and in doing so experienced a close connection with the people we met and the landscapes we crossed. These a a selection of the photos I took along the way.

Although I own a digital Pentax camera, I use my medium format Hasselblad film camera for most of my photographic projects. As it shoots negatives with a frame size of 6x6 cm it allows for great quality prints. The square format also offers unique results as it forces me to think carefully and creatively about how I compose my images.

Sometime in my youth, probably a result to the short trips my family and I did to the neighboring countries of South Africa (and no doubt also influenced by the great pile of old National Geographic Magazines that my mother once bought at a church bazaar), I caught a serious case of the traveling bug. After completing my degree in Fine Art, I lived and worked in England and Scotland for two years and completed a trip through Italy, Greece, Turkey and parts of Western Europe before returning to South Africa. In 2008 I spent three weeks in India, exploring the city of Varanasi and trekking to the source of the Ganges. Not even the fact that I have had my passport stolen on two occasions during my travels has distilled my urge to travel.

I currently live in Cape Town and work as a retouch artist. As it stands at the moment, photography is simply a very involving (and somewhat expensive) passion, but my plans for the future are to develop it into a something of a career. For more examples of my photography you can visit my website: www.dillonmarsh.com