Ian Byers-Gamber captures the art world from his car
How to shoot a photographic portrait in the age of contagion?
Proximity is risky. A sealed studio unimaginable. The very form — one person capturing the likeness of another in a shared space — has required an overhaul at a time when we shout at each other from a distance of six feet, surgical masks obscuring our expressions.
Artist Ian Byers-Gamber, however, has found a way to embrace these limitations and make some intriguing photographs in the process.
Since April, the Los Angeles artist has hit the town with a pair of bulky film cameras — a medium-format Mamiya RB67 and a large-format Chamonix 45F-2 — to make portraits of the city’s artists and arts workers at this moment in time. Serving as studio is his black Honda