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Hand built camera – ​WZBOX.3

The WZBOX.3 installation is a wooden 8’x 8’ room-sized camera that was hand-built by the artist duo Walter & Zoniel. Constructed in order to create many of their life-sized portraits, it is akin to a ginormous box camera large enough to walk in. Inside it houses a giant tilt-shift mechanism used to draw focus by hand, and photographic chemistry for the creation of their photographic artworks. The artists use a 160-year-old antique brass lens from their collection, adding another layer of unique effect to their work. Doubling as a dark room, Walter & Zoniel operate the camera from within by reflecting light from their subjects directly onto sheets of glass, tin or paper, covered in light-sensitive photographic chemistry.