#leicayear

The project "ONE LEICA YEAR IN PARIS" by KOANSAN will be part of the group show "UNDEFINED 1.0" organized by Joachim Romain and Jungle, both members of the famous 6B art residency in Saint Denis near Paris. The following artists will show their work :

Joachim Romain

Romain Froquet

Gilbert Mazout

Koansan

Jungle

The Blind

Stéphane Carricondo

It's been a while since I decided to start down the road of taking pictures for one year with a Leica. I bought an M6 that hadn't seen much use and by the end of last year, picked up a Voigtlander Color-Skopar 35mm 2.5 lens to accompany it (and promptly lost the lens cap). For a few weeks, I shot with colour and black and white.  I taught myself to develop my own film, with varying levels of success. I started using diafine because I tend to take pictures of friends in bars while we are out. The downside of this is that I can't stop down enough when there's enough light outside.

I'm struggling with how to properly scan my film, but that's not really an excuse to not start this project in earnest. And so, I'm going to be taking pictures for a whole year, with my M6, 35 f2.5 and Tri-X 400. I'm going to try to document each frame as well as I can, if only for myself, but scans should be up here every so often. Just give me a few days to finish and scan the first few rolls.