Calah Jones Artist Post 11

1.     Photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind uses a Bronica SqAi for slower process filming.  She normally uses a medium format Bronica single lens reflex camera.  This camera is good for portraits, landscapes, and getting a film look in photography.  Taylor-Lind’s camera has a 6x6 cm 120 roll film. 

2.      Taylor-Lind prefers this kind of camera because of her process in photography.  She “see(s) the world square, not rectangular” (Taylor-Lind).  The frame of the Bronica SqAi is in the shape of her preference.  She shoots at a waist-level viewfinder, this way she doesn’t cover her face or get in the way of the picture and allows her to get in better contact with her subject matter.  The camera itself is very old-fashioned with the process of the handheld light meter.  On more up to date cameras, there are internal light meters. Taylor-Lind must take her time taking her photos because she must manually correct all her adjustments and lighting to take a decent picture.

3.     I enjoy some of Taylor-Lind’s photos.  My favorites are her portraits.  They are so simple, yet they capture a lot of detail.  Her portraits have a history or a narrative to them which I think is gravitating to the viewer because I am looking at her pictures wondering who these people are and what they are doing or where they may be or even what time period the picture was taken in.