Papershoot — a compact camera that blends the convenience of digital imaging with the magic of film.
It lacks a screen for viewing captured images, complex settings, or endless frame scrolling. This conscious refusal of immediate feedback is a fundamental stance: the camera returns photography to its analog nature, where every shot is taken intuitively, based on trust in one’s own vision. Technically, however, it is a digital device featuring a 20 MP sensor and four built-in filters that simulate film grain and tonality.
The project aims to create new cases for a camera.
Papershoot mimics the grain of analog film—a random, uncontrollable texture where unpredictability is valued. The surface of recycled PLA operates on the same principle: the randomness of the melting process generates a pattern that cannot be reproduced and does not need to be controlled. The grain in the photograph and the grain on the camera body are manifestations of the same aesthetic premise—the acceptance of randomness as a value.
