The Konstruktor

Build Your Very Own Compact 35mm SLR Camera

Be a true Lomographer and analog enthusiast by not only shooting with film, but by building your own SLR! Get your hands on the Konstruktor and after some clicks and screws, you'll have your own fully-working 35mm camera ready to capture knock-out analog photos! The Konstruktor has a top-down viewfinder to see what you shoot and to focus as well as a multiple exposure function, bulb setting for long exposures and a detachable 50mm f/10 Lens for even more experimenting.

Konstrukt Your Creativity
The Konstruktor is the perfect gift for DIY lovers-fun to build, easy to use and fully customizable. Each kit includes a set of colorful covers and stickers to give an even more personal touch to your analog construction!

Explore the Mechanics of Analog Photography
The Konstruktor gives you the chance to learn more about the inner workings of an analog camera as you put your own together piece by piece. You'll be equally rewarded with impressively sharp shots on regular 35mm film. Stay tuned for more options to further customize the Konstruktor as we have more interchangeable Lomography lenses and accessories planned!

More Details
• DIY 35mm SLR camera with interchangeable lens system
• Includes 50mm f/10 lens
• Shutter speed: 1/80s
• Multiple exposure capability
• Tripod thread for long exposures
• Suitable for ages 12 and above
• Takes about 1-2 hours to build
• Price: $35.00
• Purchase at Lomography.com and Lomography Gallery Stores worldwide
• Download high resolution product photos and sample photos here

Tips and Tricks
Visit the Konstruktor microsite or check out our specially made instruction videos:
Full In-depth tutorial
Step-by-step videos:
1. Building The Lens
2. Building The Hood Viewfinder
3. Building The Camera Body
4. Assembling Other Parts
5. Putting Together The Pieces
6. Finishing Assembling
7. Final Touches

What the Hell is Lomography?
The Lomographic Society International is a globally-active organization dedicated to experimental and creative snapshot photography. Boasting over one million members across the world, the concept of Lomography encompasses an interactive, vivid, blurred and crazy way of life. Through our constantly expanding selection of innovative cameras, film, lab services & photographic accessories, we promote analogue photography as a creative approach to communicate, absorb, and capture the world. Our online community and Lomography Gallery Stores all over the world provide our products and a space for exchanging knowledge and ideas, workshops, meetups and all lomographic needs. Through the efforts and skills of our Lomographic Society members, we seek to document the incredible planet around us in a never-ending stream of snapshots - literally a global Lomographic portrait as seen through the eyes of countless individuals and cultures. THE FUTURE IS ANALOG!

Michael Joseph: Lost & Found

By Michael Joseph

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 144 pages

Lost & Found documents a contemporary American subculture of young Travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These Travelers abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. Along their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.

The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence. The black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. Individual stories, as a collection, form a greater narrative. Over ten years in the making, Joseph’s portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

An incredible book that we highly recommend! All About Photo

All About Michael Joseph

Nick Brandt: Sink / Rise, The Day May Break: Chapter Three

By Nick Brandt

Publisher : Hatje Cantz

2024 | 120 pages

Through his widely acclaimed work, English photographer Nick Brandt (1964) addresses pressing environmental issues, consistently highlighting mankind’s impact upon the natural world. His work is truly a fusion of artistry and activism, and he is best known for capturing the majestic landscapes of Africa as well as intimate portraits of its wildlife. Sink / Rise is the third chapter of The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying ecological degradation and destruction. This chapter adopts a slightly different approach than its predecessors: taking humans, rather than animals or landscapes, as his subjects. Sink / Rise focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans from climate change. The people in these photos, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of the Fijian islands, are local representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as the water rises. In Brandt’s images, the Islanders sit down at tables, stand on chairs and embrace―all the while, their pinched expressions reveal the desperation of their asphyxiating condition.

All About Nick Brandt

Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

By Lisa McCord:

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 204 pages

Rotan Switch is the first monograph by Lisa McCord, documenting life on her grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice. Collected over the last forty-four years, these images and stories are a reflection on the people and places that have taught McCord the meaning of the word home. It is also a self-exploration into her inherently complicated role in this community as both the photographer and the granddaughter of the farm owner.
This publication is a long-term project, constructed from McCord's analog photographs, family snapshots and ephemera. Including, monochrome photographs, color polaroids, and recipes.

Christer Strömholm

By Christer Strömholm

Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing

2024 | 296 pages

Christer Strömholm is recognised as one of the major figures of 20th century European photography. Strömholm captured his surroundings in black‐and‐white images that display his integrity, understated humour and a highly personal aesthetic. With an unmistakable sensitivity to human suffering, based on his personal experience, he took photography in a new direction. Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian, has described him “as the father of Swedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher.”

The Konstruktor

Build Your Very Own Compact 35mm SLR Camera

Lomography and the Konstruktor

Selected Books