Our Mission Winner is stickme, see below for infos about runners-up and new mission!

The Jury Says
First off, that circular super-fisheye look gets us every time. Second, the composition and low-light glowing ambience is really tops. And finally, our man in the back has the greatest handlebar moustache that we've seen in 25 years. Breathtaking, even.

Newcastle Lomographic Embassy
We've known Scootiepye online for a long time as one of the best, most active and most dedicated Lomographers. And at the Lomography World Congress in Beijing 2004 we actually met the lady behind the nic. Helen Errington was lomographically insatiable in real-life too, and soon the first plans had been laid to open a Lomographic Embassy in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. The 38-year-old first found about Lomography in 2001, since when she has been among the winners of quite a few lomographic competitions. She was famous in cyberspace as a member, she communicates with the whole world and has uploaded thousands of excellent Lomographs. And also organises regular LomoWorkshops in her area. As the new Newcastle LadyLomoAmbassador, she's currently waiting patiently to share her skill and joy with the community in a vast array of projects. "I'm half-Viking half-Geordie," Helen tells us. "Newcastle's history is steeped in coal-mining and ship-building. My grandfather was a miner. It is a truly vibrant city brim full of cultural diversity. Football is also a huge passion here, on match day you can hear the ‘Toon army’ roar throughout the city. If you’re born in Newcastle you’re considered to be a ‘Geordie’, some of the more famous Geordies of modern times include, Sting, Mark Knopfler, Paul Gascoigne, Chris Waddle, Jimmy Nail... The Toon is a perfect playce fre Lomo! – Newcastle is a perfect place for Lomography!"
http://www.lomohomes.com/scootiepye
http://www.lomographynewcastle.co.uk

Manchester Lomographic Embassy
Gareth Wane, the indomitable 'G', is another hard-core Lomographer who has been visibly active in the community for the past four years. The charismatic DJ and musician has contributed vastly to lomographic competitions and publications during this time and travelled the world to join the lomographic gatherings. At the World Congress 2002 in Vienna the 25 year old was so busy absorbing his surroundings that he didn't go to sleep at all, and at the World Congress 2004 in Beijing he was quite definitely the most lomographed person. His rambunctious approach to involving Lomography in his daily life makes him hook up almost immediately with anything and anyone he encounters.
In and around Manchester (one of the largest student towns in Europe, erstwhile home to Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, to the Bee Gees, the Smiths, Joy Division, New Order and Manchester United) Gareth has long been seriously proactive in any number of projects with a group of fellow Lomographers. Now the Lomographic Embassy in Manchester is going to be the focus, the arena of his passion for Lomography. We will be reporting soon on pending events and competitions.
http://www.lomohomes.com/gwane
http://www.lomographymanchester.co.uk

Edinburgh Lomographic Embassy
Richard Baker originally trained as an actor and a filmmaker in London. Since living in Edinburgh, Scotland, his life has centred around being head of marketing for the Edinburgh International Film Festival, chair of the board for Edinburgh Mediabase and co-director of Whateverworks. "I don't distinguish between my 'work life' and my 'creative life'. ...I love the egalitarian ethos of Lomography. I love that Lomographic images are like memories or dreams and that the cameras become an extension of you and embed themselves in your life... So far, Lomography has been a very private experience for me. But, I’m very much about community and belonging to something, and I look jealously at what other cities in the world enjoy in terms of Lomography embassies, shops & events. I want to make it happen for my city, Edinburgh. The whole city is a gift to anyone smart enough to be packing a Lomo camera."
http://www.lomohomes.com/dashoon

London Lomographic Embassy
After half a decade of Fabian Monheim’s incomparable LomographicEmbassy activities this venerable Lomographic spirit has decided to focus on a couple of other projects as well... and moved to Tokyo. Although he will of course still be cooperating on Lomography projects with his creative and very lomographic input, his exceptionally active and devoted Lomographic community is now to be served by the new London Embassy – The Kurious Girls! Kurious PR is a small, fiercely independent fashion PR company based in London, small in stature but big in ideas and supremely creative. The Kurious Ambassadors’ team Linda, Karen, Susie and Donna have already started with a load of projects and activities at such a tempo we can hardly keep up – these girls have character!
http://www.kuriouspr.com

Toronto Lomographic Embassy
Michael Meyer, the new LomographicAmbassador in Toronto ticks over at about the same speed as the grrrls from London. With him we believe it will be easy to provide an adequate homebase to all the lost Canadian Lomographers at long last.
Michael is president of Interzone Brands, a distributor and marketing agency for foreign companies in Canada. He loves exceptional activities, surfing the world's seas or coordinating a project in the Okavongo Delta in Botswana for the erection of 6 water towers along a 26km pipeline bringing drinking water to remote villages. The embassy has already realised a number of Lomography projects in conjunction with artists and an event after a presentation of the Toronto Masterplan 1 documentation of Queen Street, Toronto's hippest area. With the help of Toronto's most vivid Lomographer, Pamila Matharu, there are loads of plans all lined up.
http://lomocanada.blogspot.com

Kiev Lomographic Embassy
Lesia Shkurat got in touch with us at the start of the year as she needed some support for a piece she was writing on the Lomography. Then one day she popped into the GHQ in Vienna and showered us with stories from Kiev, Lomo images of the Orange Revolution, hundreds of questions and a bucketful of ideas. A few hours later diplomatic accord had been met regarding Ukrainian Lomography with this likeable, enigmatic and headstrong young woman. She is 30 years old, works as an information assistant in a Kiev library and now aims for a huge community to fill the Lomography World Archive with zillions of images from the Ukraine. "When I was a child I had a Smena and a Lomo Lubitel 166, but I never had Lomo Kompakt before one of my friends gave it to me as a present in 2000 and said I would understand the true worth of it. And I did love it. Even if the pictures are blurred, they are alive and radiate a sort of energy of the situation. I discovered Lomography, the community and the story, and was really impressed. Since then I have taken my Lomo everywhere I go in Kiev’s streets, concerts and clubs. In 2002 I took part with my Lomos in the ‘Crimean Landscapes’ exhibition in Kiev. I am happy to build up a really interactive Lomography Kiev Center. Kiev will make for great Lomographers."
http://www.lomohomes.com/kukakuka

The Picture Stories - Behind the Motion: Lomography Life Visuals
The Lomography VJs are stretching their wings and taking off from Vienna to Munich with ten projectors and floods of images crammed into their luggage. In the Lounge Club Cord (www.cord.tv), carefully selected lomographic tales in images from all over the world are being dusted-down and brought back to life on bright screens in a Bavarian ambience. 'Behind the Motion' looks behind the moving scenery of lomographic arenas all over the world, and presents a night of images for connoisseurs. Special guest: DJ Elekronische. Don't miss it!
Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 8pm at Cord, Sonnenstrasse 18, Munich, Germany
http://www.lomography.com/events/?sub=0&evid=267

Moscow - New York: Double Exposure Express
Recently in New York: Our indefatigable Böbling/Stuttgart Ambassadors Ingeborg and Lothar invaded the Big Apple and brought exposed film back to Germany by the suitcase-full. Soon in Moscow: Manic globe-trotting Moscow-based Lomographers are reloading exposed film they got in Germany into their own Lomographic cameras and running through town. Wanted: Lomographers, Holgarains, Colorsplatterers, Frogeyers, Samplianists who are ready to dash off smartly to frostily chattering Russian Moscow, to go shopping at the GUM. People who can visit old bros there or are simply on good terms with the Solyankas – loading the films shot in New York for a second or third time into their own cameras... Sup? Nevsky Prospect behind 42nd Street? Christo's Gates on Red Square? Coca Cola on top of Stolichnaya? Bleenies with teenies? Momo meets Matroshka? There's really no difference! Two cities at one glance, two countries on one photograph. A mix of the Kremlin and the Statue of Liberty. An excellent survey of the results will follow soon.
http://www.lomography.com/go/?where=events&sub=0&evid=260

LOve & MOtion
Somewhere on one of the millions of roofs in New York City during the Lomography World Championships in October 1999, zealous Lomographer and documentary filmmaker, Christian Schmidt-David, told us about his vision for the first time. He wanted to dedicate a film to the complete extraordinary story of Lomography. He actually embarked on the process of making this film only two years late, and with inexhaustible passion he painstakingly compiled a remarkable collection of lomographic images, interviews, amateur video footage and professional film material. And we at the Lomography GHQ in Vienna haven't had time for a breather since then either... He rummaged relentlessly through the LomographyArchive and tenaciously probed for our deepest LomographicMemories in hours of chat. Here in Vienna and also in the rest of the world he tried to capture as many impressions, stories and images as he possibly could from the lives of the team of first Lomographers, photo processors, Russians, lateral thinkers and other Lomographers.
What has come out is a story about the history and all the little anecdotes associated with what is perhaps the zaniest movement of recent decades. The way we see it, it's not just a documentary it's Christian Schmidt-David's personal declaration of love to Lomography. The film tells the story of the wild beginnings of the Society, of the legendary Russian Lomo Kompakt camera, of our Russian friends or of the ever-growing archives of online images. Christian Schmidt-David pursues small and broader subjective moments in the world of Lomography, and makes central themes of megalomania, enthusiasm and the creation of icons. He compiled his material with curiosity of Lomographic dimensions, with the light-heartedness, habits and thoughts of LomographicUnicorns and similar personalities, combining them to create a new and visually epic image.
First came Alexander Graham's English documentary on Lomography for the BBC, which celebrated its world cinema premier in February 2004 at the FIFA Art Documentary Film Festival in Montreal. Now, this January, the first feature-length film on Lomography made in German (by Christian Schmidt-David) is being premiered at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in Saarbrücken. Preview screenings were held last week in Stuttgart and Berlin.
http://www.loveandmotion.de

The three indefatigable supremos behind the homepage
Drastic improvements are underway in the virtual spheres of the lomographic network. Michael Bayr, who spent the last years deeply involved with the international embassies and projects is now taking over the lomographic community's key platform, the web. With his team (Markus Wegscheider in Vienna, who is behind the new generation Lomography web design and Michael Kuhle in New York, who is responsible for the online product sales) he is about to start turning everything inside out, working on new challenges, tools and services, and being on call practically 24/7. From now on, vast and growing though Lomography is, there just can't be enough projects underway at any one time to fill with the outpourings of these industrious and imaginative masters of their craft. Daily info updates on the homepage!

Five goldfish and a secret
The lomographic community is proud to announce a new addition. If your heart can bear the intense rock-and-roll nature of goldfish and their lives, then float over to our new series of 5 goldfish tales. We fell in love with the goldfish and you will love what came out of this. There's more than meets the (bubble) eye, as each tale will bring you closer to our new absolutely top-secret camera which will change your view. Soon.

Lomo.Mission.22: Brief
The new theme for the draconian Online Lomography contest is all Law And Order. When you fight authority Lomography always wins. Stick it to the man and snap away at the cops, guards, lawyers, stern dads, and tough watchdogs that call the shots and bust the chops. Challenge the systems and take a gamble. Get images of you sneaking over a red light, doing something forbidden, up before your local court, the lines people going into a factory, the strict rules at your workplace, the uniforms people wear. Take part and come first.
The top winner will receive our underwater Frogeye cam paired with an exclusive, hand-signed and numbered unit of our secret new camera (details will be released by March 10th). The next 4 runners up will receive their own new and very secret Lomographic camera too.
http://www.lomography.com/missions