About Kalloosh / Kelly McCracken

"The best part of us is not what we see, it's what we feel. We are what we feel. We are not what we look at . . .. We're not our eyeballs, we're our mind. People believe their eyeballs and they're totally wrong . . .. That's why I consider most photographs extremely boring - just like Muzak, inoffensive, charming, another waterfall, another sunset. This time, colors have been added to protect the innocent. It's just boring. But that whole arena of one's experience - grief, loneliness - how do you photograph lust? I mean, how do you deal with these things? This is what you are, not what you see. It's all sitting up here. I could do all my work sitting in my room. I don't have to go anywhere."

-Duane Michals

I shoot mainly with an unmodified Holga, but sometimes with a Zero Image 69 pinhole camera or a Ricoh Caplio GX100 digital.

I'm Female.

Chicago, IL, but now for a time in Amman, Jordan

Kalloosh's contacts (203)

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Kalloosh's public groups

Double Exposure Museum cafe Muslim Cultures Chicago... Toy Cameras Twin Lens Reflex holgagraphy Typography and Lettering Fotolog.net - 1 per page !! read Pinhole laundry no words Sit down Firenze - Florence squareFormat Medium Format Sicily Do It Yourself Black & White Roma caput mundi Egypt Mosques and Minarets Panoramic **osanpo camera / お散歩カメラ UNESCO World Heritage Sites Diana Photography wabi sabi suki swoon Midwest Multiple Exposure Hotel Rooms Postbox No-Subject Holga people (people in the picture) Ambiguous Logan Square Syria naniwa COLOR KIT N Houses of God Chicago Street Art Katrina Relief Auction - Total Donations To Date: $19,553.01 路邊椅 chairs outside lightleaks Guess Where Chicago Holga Masterpieces (see rules) Positive Focus TOYCAMERA MULTI-X	Damascus tarkovsky's shadow Gravel Road Photography Under the Surface - a photography show Trashcams Free Camera Chicago Transit Authority Hooray for Hollywood! Toy Cameras - solo Italia!! Chicago-Alt Zero Image Foma Film Syria Historical Sites Chicago Public Radio Happy Camper Shoes Fotolog Book (please read criteria) homemade pictures HOLGA -B&W- (Black & White 120film shots only) Italy in Black & White Holgaramas The Beauty Of Afghanistan Through The Viewfinder Siracusa Paste-Ups-Only Holga Mon Amour mono no aware Paper Back Numbers Obscured 6x6 magic worldwidewandering - a travel atlas Holga Architecture wheatpaste Il Bel Paese (3 or + Flickr *) my life with holga (read the rules) You Are Beautiful IPHF- International Photography Hall of Fame profundamérica fruttacitta Memory and Desire Bergger 200 A Better B&W Group Ricoh Caplio GX-100 Theaters by Toy Cameras. RICOH GX100 Square Lawrence University flickizmir Tri-X 320

Testimonials

...cathzilla says:
"That's official, now :
*I love her*

She makes me dream... & nothing is more precious"

[kren] says:
"This is one of the few streams in which I feel "at home". I'm glad she's around so that I don't feel alone."

felmagalhães says:
"plus de lumière!!!!
if only kalloosh were around to listen to goethe's very last desire..."

mickey1 says:
"""you are an inspiration"""

efo says:
"Kelly's images seem to be about memory and longing, but mostly, she just has a damn good eye."

sam_ says:
"It has often been said that the person behind the camera is more important then the camera itself. Owing expensive gear won't make anyone a good photographer. Being able to capture the ordinary in an interesting way; to draw the viewer in by looking at the world differently is some of what makes for good photographs. Kelly's work is an outstanding example of someone with a gift for photography. Shooting most often with one of the cheapest cameras available, the classic Holga, she is able to produce remarkable images. There is a lot to be said for someone who can do this and I feel fortunate to have been exposed to her work."

drp says:
"I am a big fan of Kelly's work. It does seem to transcend the real into that ethereal world of dreams and enlightenment. Yes, it's a religious experience for your eyes. Come and worship, won't you?"

venegas says:
"making the real vanish into memories and dreams, she is the most generous of inspirations."

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