This is a brief excerpt from F-Stoppers
Lomography is into film revivals lately, recently releasing something quite similar to Kodak’s discontinued Aerochrome film, Lomography Purple. What’s so special about Lomography Purple? It changes all of your greens into a bright purple color. Surely such psychedelic effects will be revered by hipsters, lomographers, and acid-dropping enthusiasts around the world, but what is the actual use of such a film? Believe it or not, there is one (or two)…
Weeder.org has a great article discussing the history of Kodak’s Aerochrome and its inspiration to Lomography Purple. Richard Mosse apparently used the original Aerochrome film, designed as a film for surveillance applications to help differentiate camouflaged objects, in photographing what was supposedly daily life in the Congo. Naturally, he foresaw the issue of photographing dozens of camouflaged soldiers in the Congo’s lush forests, and made what was both a creative and practical decision to use Aerochrome.
His photographs (below) provide an interesting example of a more practical photojournalistic use for such a film that might otherwise be seen as valuable only in a scientific or military scenario. You can see how, strangely enough, any colors that are not specifically green are left untouched and rendered …
By: Adam Ottke
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