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The Other Side of the Lens, continued

A few years ago, I saw esteemed photographer Joe McNally give a talk at the Annenberg SpaceĀ for Photography. Despite all of Joe’s amazing work over the years, doing shoots for various news organizations and the National Geographic, what stuck with me most were some simple shots he took of photographers with their cameras. It inspired me to begin my own project, taking portraits of all the photographers I know with their cameras.

Over a year or so, this project grew into, “The Other Side of the Lens,” which has so far been exhibited once.

Due to work, I had to put this project on hold for a while, but as I’m gearing to start it up again, I thought I would share some of the images from the extended shoot here.

Here are some shots of the gallery exhibit, which took the form of an old-school, analog darkroom, with “prints” in developer, hanging from drying lines, and “negatives” in the enlarger. It was a lot of fun to put together, and the reactions of experienced photographers taking in the digital recreations of the analog photography tools was fun to watch.

It was fun to create negatives of the exhibit, which I printed on a clear mylar film, to replicate the real thing.

Sample Negative
Sample Negative