CREATIVE EYE GROUP MAGAZINE NO. 86 SEPTEMBER 2021
A 50 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE
The Oculus, 2018
TILLMAN KLEINHANS ARPS
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n the 23rd of February 1971, I bucked the family
trend and got a camera (Zenit B + Helios f2 lens) for my 21st birthday instead of a posh fountain pen. 50 years on and without a break, I’m still as passionate (Marj, my wife, says obsessive) about photography as I was then – probably more so. What made me decide time in my life I was at Teacher Training College and when I should have been revising for Chemistry and Physics exams in the college library, I would find myself 14
Phone vs Book, 2018
to get a camera? At that