Hoje foi publicado no Emulsive um artigo que fiz detalhando a construção da câmara ULF, segue aqui o link: https://emulsive.org/articles/projects/measure-twice-cut-once-building-my-multi-format-8×20-16×20-and-12×16-camera
Começa mais ou menos assim:
I lived most of my life in São Paulo, Brazil, with its 20+ million people. I have photographed São Paulo in many different ways, but ever since I got a box of expired 16×20” lith film I have imagined shooting large landscape negatives with lots of details and contrast, this is a small tale about a camera that came to be as part of this desire.
My story begins a little before my first son, Pedro, was born – he was due in March 2002 and I decided to build him a crib. At that time, I was working in a plant that packed auto parts for export in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. My job was to photograph packaging procedures and make up some instructions for each part that came by.
We also had a woodshop to make trial crates for large parts, the man responsible for this shop was Joe Marshall and we used to talk a lot about travelling and woodworking. He offered to help me with the crib and one day during lunch we went to the outskirts of town to see a lumberjack. I ended up buying a large chunk of maple…