This is the medium format film version of the digital test exposure I posted here a couple of weeks ago.
I first met Marcel in 2008 on my second trip to the Lyon area for my Soldbuch book project. This image was taken last week when we met again to be interviewed by the local, Montluel-based newspaper, Journal de la Côtière. Marcel is the only person I have met from the area with first-hand memories of the prisoner of war camp in which my grandfather was held.
I know very little about this book and have purposely avoided finding out more for fear that dissection may destroy its charm. BSRC is a beautifully understated, zine-y production that delivers it's mysterious narrative with vital, rough edges. The images seem to come from a few different sources - aside from original photography - including video and maybe even newspaper clippings. I read somewhere that BSRC was photographed on the island of Madeira, which is apparently the only place you'll find the black scabbardfish, and where its author was born.
The format is A5, comprising 32 pages in an edition of 150 signed and numbered copies. It used to be available from Motto Distribution (10€) but I don't know if they have any left.
Pedro Ramos' website: www.pedroramos.org
A page layout from my unfinished book, Movement.
Because I was shooting the Mamiya on 'bulb' and picking out trees with torchlight I used a digital camera to help gauge exposure. Yves, who had been felling trees nearby, came to see why I was waving a torch about in the middle of the woods.
A few diary camera shots from the last week. Film images to come later . . .
What ever happened to the "one camera, one lens" days?
