Recently I was fortunate to receive an antique
8x10 large
format view camera. This camera, being over a century old, having seen better
days, it’s bellows and brass worn, the standards and locking breaks stripped,
seemed to be the perfect tool to explore my feelings of excitement and trepidation
in purchasing a home with my partner. Due to the lack of control that this camera
exerts over my image making, I have entered into a partnership of give and take
which mirrors the reality of sharing one’s life. To enhance this feeling
of mediated experience I have incorporated photographic paper as my negative
and a 4x5 lens which creates the vinetteing in the image. These images are in
essence snapshots of my own domestification.