we Lomographers love everything that gets our eyes going and keeps the blinkers off, so to speak: an extreme variety of normal and unusual atmospheres, clours, forms, people, animals and other creatures, situations and action,... but with all the possible and impossible distortions, shifts, mishapings, inversion and extensions of our visual peeerpection - we simply can't get enough og it!
On the lookout for a new veritable kick for our thirsty little eyes, we have once more taken a completely different approach to the subject of seeing: We've always been fascinated by the way we see and what we might see in setting that our eyes were not created to deal with ,..e.g. under water, chez les poisons, at home with the sea horses, hippopotamuses, duck-billed platypuses and crocodiles! Then, though, we thought let's turn the whole thing around and look into the way fish's eyes see inan unfamiliar environment, i.e. above the water, on land, in the fresh air. of course we're talking mainly here those cute little (and sometimes even quite big) goldfish, the ones that seeour world from their aquariums, the world of people, bluebottles and dromedaries!
Now we've gone to the troubleof researching the life of goldfish, rampaging around in their living rooms and their bedrooms, bars, office, restaurants, shop windows, zoos and other public aquariums, in goverment office, hotel receptions, camping sites and caravans on the road ets. ets. Above all, we were interested in the optical dimensions of the goldfish's life - in fact, we were very curious to find out what they get to hear all day long! As result, first we knocked up a beautiful new camera with a chunky lens mounted on the front capable of perfectly simulating the physics of seeing for our slippery playmates in aquariums around the world. And then we wanted to know more about the state-of-mind our little dumb partners were in,.. and were very quick to come to some sensational findings...
