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!

Whatever You Say, Say Nothing

By Gilles Peress

Publisher : Steidl

2021 | 1960 pages

A long-awaited, multivolume "documentary fiction" of photographs and documents portraying the Northern Ireland conflict In 1972, at the age of 26, Gilles Peress (born 1946) photographed the British Army's massacre of Irish civilians on Bloody Sunday. In the 1980s he returned to the North of Ireland, intent on testing the limits of visual language and perception to understand the intractable conflict. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, a work of "documentary fiction," organizes a decade of photographs across 22 fictional "days" to articulate the helical structure of history during a conflict that seemed like it would never end―days of violence, of marching, of riots, of unemployment, of mourning. Accompanying each copy is Annals of the North, a text-and-image almanac to Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, also published separately by Steidl this season; the books are housed together in a tote bag. Held back for 30 years and now eagerly anticipated, Whatever You Say, Say Nothing takes the language of documentary photography to its extremes.

All About Gilles Peress

The Day May Break

By Nick Brandt

Publisher : Hatje Cantz

2021 | 168 pages

Photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, The Day May Break is the first part of a global series by acclaimed photographer Nick Brandt, portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. The people in these photographs were all affected by climate change, displaced by cyclones and years-long droughts. Photographed at five sanctuaries, the animals were rescues that can never be rewilded. As a result, it was safe for human strangers to be close to them, photographed so close to them, within the same frame. The fog on location is the unifying visual motif, conveying the sense of an ever-increasing limbo, a once-recognizable world now fading from view. However, despite their respective losses, these people and animals have survived, and therein lies possibility and hope.

All About Nick Brandt

Fugue State

By Aline Smithson

Publisher : Peanut Press

2021 | pages

This Peanut Portfolio Book includes one signed and numbered original photograph and one signed and numbered hardcover book, 40 pages, 18 color plates.

Aline Smithson's award-winning portraiture has been shown in numerous exhibitions and publications internationally and is held in many public and private collections. Smithson has also exhibited her portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in London and was commissioned to create a series of portraits for the Smithsonian Art and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Fugue State asks us to think about the permanence of photographs. Both digital and analog images can be destroyed by time, and here, Smithson hastens the process herself. When has destruction been so beautiful?

All About Aline Smithson

Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter To Photography

By Ed Kashi

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2021 | 136 pages

If Cartier-Bresson's decisive moment reflects a situation perfectly in tune with the photographer's intuition, flawlessly combining the elements of composition and timing, then Ed Kashi's abandoned moment is the result of an imprecise instant of surrender.

This collection of photographs, made over a 40-year period, reveals imprecise glimpses of transitory events filled with frenetic energy – the chaos of everyday life. Embodying photography's intrinsic power, they preserve moments that can never occur again in exactly the same time and space. When geometry, mood, and possibility unite to unintentionally create something new, the magical and fictional qualities of still photography capture the unplanned essence of existence.

In contrast to my journalistic approach of deep personal connection and keen observation, this work is about capturing the untamed energy of a moment with abandon.

The Konstruktor

Build Your Very Own Compact 35mm SLR Camera

Lomography and the Konstruktor

Selected Books