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18 Feb 2012, Saturday.

Darkroom Army finally opened its doors to citizens at large in conjunction with The Cotton Candy Machine Pop-Up Store opening at Peek! featuring head honcho, Tara McPherson. That’s 3 quality events in one. Thanks to Peek! and Fever Avenue, I got wind of this major undertaking a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I’ve been toying around with a FED 5B (not unlike the one Tara designed), saluted the Russians for their contributions to analogue photography, and on the recent Saturday, played witness to the official Darkroom Army’s camp (which is grungy, cool, and full of DIY goodness), scored the Tara McPherson x Kidrobot Swatch (of which I got Tara herself to sign; thanks Peek!), payed homage to the artist by purchasing some stickers, and immersed myself in what I believe would be history in the making for the local art/analogue photography scene.

Hold on to your guns, analogue soldiers. The war has just begun.

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2 more days till the Cotton Candy Machine Show and the soldiers behind the Darkroom Army are kicking things into high gear! Don’t forget to purchase your tickets for their inaugural Darkroom Army Lecture Series featuring none other than the famed Tara McPherson at S$10 (for Students), S$15 (for Early Bird) and S$20 (at the door) at darkroomarmy.com.

BUT, if you wanna score some free tix, there’s a cool contest happening here: http://bit.ly/woNOlJ

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SPOTLIGHT:

Artist of the moment, Tara McPherson is the poster princess behind Cotton Candy Machine, a boutique outfit in Brooklyn, NYC where her often innocent yet provocative art pieces call home. Oozing saccharine sweet, porcelain skinned colleens with subtle oddities in most of her works, McPherson’s characters exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in their eyes. Like the spread of tattoos adorning her very talented arms, McPherson’s body of work has also stretched far and wide across the galaxy, appearing in posters for renowned bands like The Strokes, Interpol, Duran Duran, visiting art galleries all over the world, featured in collaborations with tons of contemporary art bigwigs, and most certainly inked onto other bodies just like hers!

Little though my knowledge of this iconic artist may be, I am excited to be part of her inaugural visit to Singapore’s shores this month. While her presence will grace the launch of the Darkroom Army Gallery Store (an art x analogue cameras collective), the real showstopper will have to be the release of the limited edition Fed 5B camera that she had a hand, literally, in creating. Aptly named ‘Love Blows’, the classic Russian viewfinder camera receives McPherson’s blessings in the form of her beautiful drawing adorning the metal body.

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First Look: Fed 5B ONE

This amazing piece of metal is on loan from Peek! as part of their outreach program for an upcoming product launch (more on that later). For the moment, I’ve already shot a roll of Agfa 100 Black and White, and am intending to drop it off at the lab tomorrow. After which, I’ll review this camera proper and reveal a sneak peek about the new Fed 5B that’s coming to our shores soon.

Meanwhile, read more about this specially commissioned classic for Peek!’s 1st birthday.

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