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!

Ralph Gibson: Secret of Light

By Ralph Gibson

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2023 | 240 pages

Ralph Gibson (b. 1939) is one of the most interesting and versatile photographers of our time. His great international reputation is based on his exceptional work, which is exhibited and collected by leading museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. The publication accompanying the exhibition Ralph Gibson. Secret of Light brings together key series from the F. C. Gundlach Collection, Hamburg, as well as the photographer’s collection and describes his artistic development from the 1960s to the present. Gibson tirelessly explores and breaks new ground in photography. The playful use and design with light are an essential part of his unmistakable signature, which is reflected in his multi-layered and complex oeuvre.

All About Ralph Gibson

Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood

By Karni Arieli and photographers worldwide

Publisher : Teneues

2023 | 224 pages

The Eye Mama book is a photographic portfolio showcasing the mama narrative and the mama gaze, what female and non-binary photographers see when they look at, and into the home.
Based on the Eye Mama Project, a photography platform sharing a curated feed by photographers worldwide who identify as mamas, the Eye Mama book brings together more than 150 images to render what is so often invisible―caregiving, mothering, family and the post-motherhood self― visible.
Eye mama was created by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and photographer Karni Arieli during the pandemic, when everyone around the world was in lockdown and spending more time in the home, often consumed by caregiving. The visual movement centres around the “mama gaze”, an introspective look at home and care by female and non-binary visual artists.
This iconic book of photographs brings together the images from this movement, experiencing the light and dark of care and parenthood, the beauty of close-up details, love and hardship, and most importantly, the personal poetic truths of these mamas and artists.

Dafydd Jones: England: The Last Hurrah

By Dafydd Jones:

Publisher : Acc Art Books

2023 | 144 pages

Throughout the 1980s, award-winning photographer Dafydd Jones was granted access to some of England's most exclusive upper-class events. Now, the author of Oxford: The Last Hurrah presents this irreverent and intimate portrait of birthday parties and charity balls, Eton picnics and private school celebrations.
With the crack of a hunting rifle and a spray of champagne, these photos give an almost cinematic account of high-society England at its most riotous and its most vulnerable. Against the backdrop of Thatcher's Britain, globalization, the Falklands War, rising stocks and dwindling inherited fortunes, Jones reveals the inner lives of the established elite as they party long into the night-time of their fading world.

Arthur Tress: Rambles, Dreams, and Shadows

By Arthur Tress

Publisher : J. Paul Getty Museum

2023 | 264 pages

This richly illustrated volume is the first critical look at the early career of Arthur Tress, a key proponent of magical realism and staged photography.
Arthur Tress (b. 1940) is a singular figure in the landscape of postwar American photography. His seminal series, The Dream Collector, depicts Tress’s interests in dreams, nightmares, fantasies, and the unconscious and established him as one of the foremost proponents of magical realism at a time when few others were doing staged photography.
This volume presents the first critical look at Tress’s early career, contextualizing the highly imaginative, fantastic work he became known for while also examining his other interrelated series: Appalachia: People and Places; Open Space in the Inner City; Shadow; and Theater of the Mind. James A. Ganz, Mazie M. Harris, and Paul Martineau plumb Tress’s work and archives, studying ephemera, personal correspondence, unpublished notes, diaries, contact sheets, and more to uncover how he went from earning his living as a social documentarian in Appalachia to producing surreal work of “imaginative fiction.” This abundantly illustrated volume imparts a fuller understanding of Tress’s career and the New York photographic scene of the 1960s and 1970s.
This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from October 31, 2023, to February 18, 2024.

The Konstruktor

Build Your Very Own Compact 35mm SLR Camera

Lomography and the Konstruktor

Selected Books