NEW ! I often get e-mails from people asking me if a camera they've seen on my site is for sale ... I often have to disappoint them, because of course I don't sell the cameras in my collection. So I've decided to create a new ‘SALE’ page in the ‘BLOG’ to list the few cameras, video cameras or other accessories that I might have in duplicate or that are not in my personal interest. Just send an e-mail to info@appaphot.be to get in touch with me. See you soon - JP

Appapot.be is here to share my passion with you. This passion for photography and cameras began in the early 1970s. A few boxes decorated my tiny makeshift laboratory, and off we went... many donations and gifts from family and friends, sometimes with simple, sometimes more unusual or rare cameras... but always endearing. Then the virus did the rest and is still going strong!

So, why leave these objects that trace the entire evolution of photography, cameras, and their accessories from their origins to the present day in the shadows?

You can enjoy the photographs and the informations available on cameras and other accessories of my entire collection.These devices got used to being looked
So, continue to look at them and ...... smile!

 I'm not a professional photographer, but I've been immersed in photography for most of my life, from my first camera (an Agfa Clack 6 X 9 cm) when I was 11.
I wanted to be a surveyor like my dad, but I was born amblyopic (I can only see out of one eye), so I didn't go for surveyor. I could have chosen photography (one eye is enough) but I became a paramedical.
I was almost 23 and in the hospital where I worked, the surgeons knew about my passion for photography and I took photos in the operating theatre for these doctors who were editing articles for scientific journals that needed to be illustrated. Some days I spent a little longer in front of a reproduction table (Polaroid) of X-rays of synthetic material (prostheses) for the statistics of Swiss designers. I was also given a pack of around thirty Kodachrome films, and I was called in every time the emergency department received a serious accident victim, to finally produce some thirty hard-hitting slides for the work-accident prevention instructors. The professional photographer who was to have done this work lost consciousness the first time she took a shot...
In my private life, I've done a few reports on weddings, end-of-year school shows and dance performances. These were services rendered and I didn't earn a living from these occasional services other than a bottle of wine or some chocolate or, at best, an old camera for my collection.