To most students born in the digital age, a trip back in time to the analogue era of photography holds little appeal. Imagine having to process the film from your camera before you know whether you've successfully snapped your friends celebrating or just recorded your thumb covering the lens.
However, a group of associate degree students have been using some old technology to shoot images that are sometimes beautiful, and always unexpected.
Earlier this month, Fay Li Yuen-fay and three fellow second-year students at City University organised a workshop on Lomography for their final year project.
This creative approach to photography was started by a group of Austrian students in 1991. On a trip to Prague they found a small Russian camera - the Lomo Kompakt Automat - in a shop. The pictures the camera took may have broken the rules of 'good' photography, but they were fascinating and wonderfully weird.
The four sessions in the 'Be A Lomographer' workshops organised by Li's group were hosted by two experienced Lomographers. They introduced the digital-minded students to the art form and explained how it worked.
'I was never really into digital cameras. A lot of our fellow students and friends had heard of Lomography but not many of them knew exactly what it was,' Li says. 'Everything just fell in to place. We had to do a final year project and we wanted to do something that interested us, so we thought of Lomography and we took the chance to approach them [the experienced Lomographers].'
Lomographic cameras have plastic bodies and, instead of digital memory, use traditional film or slides. Most of their lenses are made of plastic, which helps create images with a blurry tone.