RayKo - The Best from Photographers with Plastic Cameras and Film

Every year Rayko hold a competition for photographs taken with basic plastic cameras (https://www.lensculture.com/articles/rayko-the-best-from-photographers-with-plastic-cameras-and-film). The entries have an unsurprisingly low-fi feel which brings a consistent appeal to the entries. The photographer would have had to leave a lot to chance, unsure of what the resulting photograph would be and unable to apply changes in the processing stage - this is clearly part of the appeal. It gives the photographs a magical and fundamental quality, an originality which would be lacking if we knew that the work was digitally manipulated.

I've been attracted to the idea of doing some "lomo" photography for a while, but worried that it was too gimmicky and the seeming offer of high integrity was itself false. However, this work inspires me that it would be worth taking a more lo-fi approach and leaving part of the outcome to chance.