An instant portrait session by Jeffrey Lim with the local indigenous activist group of Kampung Sungai Eloi, Pitas in Sabah, March. Photo: Albert Bansa
Just give these photographers a box and they will give you a picture. At least, that is what it looks like to the average passer-by.
Box cameras, essentially a camera and a darkroom in one, are usually homemade and might look every bit like a humble photography tool.
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Jeffrey Lim: box cameras
An instant portrait session by Jeffrey Lim with the local indigenous activist group of Kampung Sungai Eloi, Pitas in Sabah, March. Photo: Albert Bansa
A mockup of the 'Kanta Manuscript 20' photobook featuring a selection of 20 portrait prints made during the Kanta Portraits project between 2015 and 2019. Photo: Jeffrey Lim
'The Invisible Future, Facing The Visible Past' exhibit at Lightbox Photo Library in Taipei is an exhibition that aims to introduce photographic art, culture and history in Malaysia to Taiwanese audiences. Photo: Lightbox Photo Library
'Box Camera NOW' by Lukas Birk compiles a selection of works by 54 photographers from 21 countries. Jeffrey Lim, who has worked with the box camera for about a decade, is the only Malaysian featured in this book. Photo: Box Camera NOW
A photograph by Lim featured by Box Camera NOW.
Lim at the Balai Adat of Cunex in Perak. This village is located at one of the Temiar tribe’s most sacred sites. The community there has been setting up blockades against state-sanctioned logging. Photo: Alyna Tai
Lim’s first print from a trip to Kampung Petoh in Kuala Rompin, Pahang, in August. The man in the print is Horas of the Jakun tribe. Photo: Jeffrey Lim
‘The new range of cameras I’m developing will have multi-roles with detachable sections for portability and with the ability to be handheld, using waste industrial materials found within indigenous communities and rural plantations, ’ says Lim. Photo: Jeffrey Lim
Jeffrey Lim's main box camera at 'The Secret South' exhibition at the Taipei Fine Art Museum in Taiwan. Photo: Jeffrey Lim
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