This photoseries, “Athena and Diana,” presents the people and places of Athens through the unique lens of the Diana camera.

Such an exercise is much like asking two great goddesses to spend time with one another and exchange magnificent tales and incredible experiences.

Two photographs will be presented as a pair: one will focus on the great number of oddities and eccentricities of Athens, and the other will capture more recognizable scenes from the University campus and the city.

The twin photographs will share a connection but not necessarily in an overt manner. The pair will be related on a more abstract and conceptual level. The viewer, in addition to encountering a new viewpoint, will be invited to ponder the juxtaposed photographs and gain from such meditative effort a deeper understanding of the city of Athens.

The Diana camera is almost certainly the most intriguing all-plastic film camera. Built in the 1960s by a now-defunct company known as the Great Wall Plastics Factory, the Diana camera originally retailed for $1 and was produced for far less.

The camera was used in free gift bags at parties and events for children, only to be left behind in dusty bins, tossed aside in fits of confusion and disappointment. Until now, of course. With the resurgence of analog photography, the Lomographic Society International has reintroduced an exact replica of the classic Diana camera.

Images captured feature effects such as dark corner vignetting, blurred edges and selective focus, all of which invoke in the viewer an overall richly satisfying, dream-like feeling.

- Scott Young is a staff photographer for The Red & Black.