#18 Brendan Barry & His Melon, Bread and Skyscraper Cameras

2019-11-15

What a wonderful selection of guests we have had since we started the show, all very inspirational loads of fun. Our guest on show 18 is no exception, so if you are unfamiliar with the work of Brendan Barry then head over to his website straight away – alternatively do that later, sit back, pour a glass of something and enjoy the conversation. Just a note of caution, we had a few audio issues for this episode, hopefully the gremlins will be gone for next time. Things we chatted about on the show Cary Norton builds cameras fr...

What a wonderful selection of guests we have had since we started the show, all very inspirational loads of fun. Our guest on show 18 is no exception, so if you are unfamiliar with the work of Brendan Barry then head over to his website straight away – alternatively do that later, sit back, pour a glass of something and enjoy the conversation.

Just a note of caution, we had a few audio issues for this episode, hopefully the gremlins will be gone for next time.

Things we chatted about on the show

Cary Norton builds cameras from Lego and was an early inspiration

https://carynorton.com/legotron-mark-i

Brendan was asked to turn the 46th floor of 101 Park Avenue into a camera obscura, the building has 160 windows and is a space of 26,000 ftsq – not a problem – just ask https://redhooklabs.com/ and https://aperture.org/about/ to hook up with some students of diverse backgrounds to come along and help. Find out more here

https://www.thephoblographer.com/2019/06/04/brendan-barry-transformed-skyscraper-into-camera-obscura/

Of course it wasn’t long before we had to mention those good old boys over at https://homemadecamera.podbean.com/

Andrew mentioned the wonderful Heather Oelklaus who has a pinhole truck and a great website – www.Camerakarma.com

Brendan shouted out to Stephen Raff and Nicky Thompson, Wet plate Collodion workers in the UK https://www.stephenraffphotography.co.uk/new-page-2 and also https://www.nickyjthompson.co.uk/index.html

Here's a link to the Positive Light Projects - https://www.positivelightprojects.com

Brendan’s Links

If you are going to start somewhere then Brendan’s website is the best place https://brendanbarry.co.uk/

On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brendanbarryphoto/

And a new commercial venture that looks super cool, relaxing and informative https://www.instagram.com/positivelightprojects/?hl=en

And a wonderful Ilford Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLINj68P16w

LFPP links -

https://largeformatphotographypodcast.podbean.com/

ko-fi.com/largeformatphotographypodcast

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