# @kodakprofessional on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DHghHhuO1oW
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/28707285-kodakprofessional-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/b3cc8d1816.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-03-22T16:19:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kodak Professional (@kodakprofessional) — https://gondola.cc/kodakprofessional

## Caption

Our next Photographer Highlights series features Erik Poppen erikpoppen_film, a photographer based in Switzerland. Images shot on #portra800, #portra160 and #portra400.

"I work almost entirely with analog mediums and can most often be found with a Mamiya 645 or Pentax 67 in hand. As a Colorado grown and California shaped photographer, my work focuses primarily on outdoor adventure and travel, though I often explore my interest in collaborative and environmental portraiture. 

I thrive in environments where I feel most alive and make imagery representing that feeling. My work sheds light on our collective wild spirit through colorfully energetic imagery that sidesteps any bystandership to life. As my creative fire is most stoked by the intersection of people and the outdoors, I find working with film essential to my process of staying present and engaged with my work and surroundings — avoiding the distraction of an immediate return with digital mediums.

My lifestyle has been fully nomadic for almost two years now, starting in New Zealand, through Fiji and Asia, and now, as we speak, writing this on a train through the alps from Gstaad, Switzerland to Genoa, Italy. I have always sought out the unknown and draw so much of my inspiration from the new and unexpected experiences, interactions and environments that travel provides. " - Erik

You can read more about his work and process on our website under “Photographer Stories”. Link in bio

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portra160, portra400, portra800

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