The Story of a Ball and a Pen…
Ian Fleming, a well known professional photographer from Knysna, will be shooting a series of ball related photographs using a Olympus Pen Camera and a Olympus SP 35 film camera which is 40 years old. Ian normally shoots on an Olympus E3 professional camera, but has chosen a micro-four thirds camera for the project as well as the 35mm rangefinder camera. The photographs will be taken in African townships in the Garden Route, Karoo and Eastern Cape. A percentage of the profits will be donated to an organisation still to be decided by Knysna Tourism and the Knysna Municipality.. The printing of the final selection of ten will be done on canvas and sold by ten appointed outlets in South Africa as a set or on a individual basis. When asking Ian why he had decided to shoot the photographs on a point and shoot versus his trusty professional camera he said, ” I want to prove to the keen amateurs out there that top quality results can also be achieved from the Olympus Pen.”
