Tat Tso promotes analogue photography

Tat Tso got married last year and whisked his bride off to Istanbul for their honeymoon. Preparing for the trip, there was one thing that he made sure not to pack: his digital camera.

"I wanted to capture something more special and more personal, so I only brought an analogue camera. I wanted to focus on my wife and I wanted the pictures to be valuable. When I came back to Hong Kong I had the negatives. It's a physical record instead of just some data," says Tso, GM of Lomography Asia Pacific, the organisation that promotes analogue photography in this digital age.

Tso has his dream job. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he studied design and photography at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. It was a time when digital photography was just becoming widely available, but he was more concerned with fine art and loved the magic of developing his prints in the darkroom.

One of his classmates had a small, compact Russian-made camera: the Lomo LC-A. Since 1984, it had been made at the Lomo factory in St Petersburg and the point-and-shoot camera would have gone out of production if not for three Austrian students who chanced upon it in a flea market, loved it and persuaded the factory to keep making the model.

The students called themselves Lomographers and established The Lomography Society in Vienna in 1992.

Tso didn't see the LC-A camera again for several years. After graduating, he worked as a designer in Montreal then came back to Hong Kong in 2008 looking for work. The world's first Lomography shop had opened in Sheung Wan, one of the first galleries to open in the now trendy neighbourhood. He got a job as a designer, working in the office above the small shop, and on his first day of work his boss presented him with an LC-A and suggested he experiment with it.