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!

Coney Island People: 50 Years, 1970-2020

By Harvey Stein

Publisher : Schiffer

2022 | 208 pages

Coney Island is an American icon celebrated worldwide, a fantasyland of the past with an evolving present and an irrepressible optimism about its future. It is a democratic entertainment where people of all walks of life and places are brought together.

There isn’t anywhere else like it, and that is much of its appeal. Here 170 evocative black-and-white images taken by eminent photographer Harvey Stein from 1970 through 2020 simultaneously look back in time while giving a current view to the people and activities of this “poor man’s Riviera.” The images capture the wonder and intimacy of Coney Island. There is no photo book that has been published that documents a 50-year time period of a famous location taken by one photographer. Being in Coney Island is like stepping into another society, rather than just experiencing a day’s entertainment.

All About Harvey Stein

Gloria Baker Feinstein: I Hope You Find What You're Looking For

By Gloria Baker Feinstein

Publisher : Yellow Bird Press

2022 | 96 pages

"I Hope You Find What You're Looking For" 96 pages, including 55 B/W Duotones Hardbound Essays by Douglas Beasley, Julian Anderson and Gloria Baker Feinstein Poems by Kim Stafford, Oregon's former poet laureate printed at Verona Libri in Veron, Italy published by Yellow Bird Press

Harry Gruyaert: Between Worlds

By Harry Gruyaert

Publisher : ‎ Thames & Hudson

2022 | 144 pages

This book from award-winning Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert collects his most cinematic images to date.
A master of color-saturated atmospheres, Harry Gruyaert has roamed the world searching for the perfect light for more than forty years. His intuitive and physical relationship to places immerses the spectator in a world that borrows from the cinematic universe and from that of the painter. “A good photo is a photo that says a lot of things about the place and the moment it was taken,” says Gruyaert. Space―its complexity, the perception that we have of it, its plasticity―is a major component of Gruyaert’s images, as if the duality between color and spatiality was dissolving in order to create a work where the only thing that matters is the pleasure of immersion.
Harry Gruyaert: Between Worlds dissolves the boundaries between exterior and interior spaces, a closed world and one that is open to elsewhere. From shops, cafés, subway platforms, and hotel roomsin Europe, the Middle East, the United States, and Africa from the1970s to today, Gruyaert deploys the very essence of visual writing:a luminous alchemy suspended in time. A collection of seventy-five images that connect one realm with the next, this volume shows that beyond the marvelous colorist that he is, Gruyaert’s images also depict a photographer’s vision of the world.

All About Harry Gruyaert

Steve Schapiro and Theophilus Donoghue: Seventy Thirty

By Steve Schapiro and Theophilus Donoghue

Publisher : Damiani

2022 | 144 pages

Father and son collaborate on a photographic panorama of humanity Famed photojournalist Steve Schapiro (1934–2022) and his son Theophilus Donoghue (born 1982) have collaborated on a photo project that is 70% Schapiro, 30% Donoghue. Seventy Thirty depicts the various faces and expressions of humanity, from metropolitans to migrants, homeless people to conspicuous celebrities such as Alec Guinness, Allen Ginsberg, Muhammad Ali, Robert De Niro, René Magritte, Janis Joplin and Andy Warhol. Schapiro photographs early New York skateboarders while Donoghue documents current Colombian breakdancers. Schapiro includes his classic photograph Man on Iceberg, which was the opening spread of a Life story on existentialism. Similarly, Donoghue contributes his contemplative photograph Hindsight Intersection, recently featured in ARTSY’s 20 21 Artists in Support of Human Rights Watch benefit auction. Shooting in monochrome with an occasional dash of color, Schapiro and Donoghue portray the proud and lofty as well as the humble and humorous.

The Konstruktor

Build Your Very Own Compact 35mm SLR Camera

Lomography and the Konstruktor

Selected Books