never seen Turrell’s work in person but have always wanted to, especially Roden Crater.

I was initially drawn to it because of the German photographer who shoots most of his installation views, Florian Holzherr. he has a very strict, Germanic style of documenting the work that I found inspiring when I used to work as a high-end photo technician.

part of that style is due to the rigor of shooting with a large format camera, which forces you to compose on a groundglass with an etched grid and then follow a set of actions to make the image: close the lens, set the aperture, cock the shutter, remove the dark slide, release the shutter, and re-insert the dark slide before handing off the film for processing at a lab.

it’s hard to explain but the large format camera always lends a certain quality to the resulting images, a certain distance and objectivity. nowadays we use digital backs instead of sheet film, but the process remains similar.

https://www.friendsoffriends.com/workplaces/florian-holzherr/

i broke into rodin crater under cover of night and did shrooms w some friends when i was a kit. even early days without electricity it was pretty glorious

Well you sure picked a good place to do something like that. I can't help but be a little envious... haha.

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was harrowing as well. i forgot a sleeping bag and it was so cold at night i thought i was gonna die. also without lights inside and the shrooms you could only go so far in before it got too deep

but coming up that tunnel and seeing the skyhole change was 😲