Caleb Cain Marcus is a documentary photographer that uses a medium format range
finder camera with a 50mm lens and no tripod. He avoids the use of
a tripod because it creates too much structure for what he is trying to
accomplish, and his lens choice forces him to move to and from his subjects. He pays attention to the seasons and prefers to shoot in the winter because the air is dense and affects his
interaction with light.
Marcus took a 44-day trip to explore areas around the
Ganges River in India where he captured images that he described as a “tangible
presence…[with] quality and texture…” Most of his photography are of people in a distance and their surroundings. He considered the colors that India had to offer and used those elements sparingly.
My favorite image is of the bare, flat landscape above; it feels isolated
from the world. Although there is often people in his images, I feel they are secondary subjects to his compositions. I enjoy the overexposed feel to his photographs; makes me wonder if light and color was his primary subject. There is a sense of peace in Marcus's images that I love and his work emphasizes how small we are in the universe.
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