I've just spent lots of money developing some photos taken on a Diana camera. The Diana is a plastic box of magic, first marketed as a toy many years ago. It’s established quite a cult following on the basis that you can never quite predict what any of your shots are going to look like. Part of the appeal is in surrendering yourself to its whims, its random flashes of colour and contrast, your inability to focus it.

And so with minimal effort the shots are rendered beautiful by some mysterious in-camera alchemy. And while the photos technically record information much less accurately than a 7 mega-pixel digital smart-ass, this film camera seems to more accurately reflect the moment. All of the developed pictures have an inherent art – creamy, sensate squares.

So hailing a cab in New York City looks exactly how it felt.

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