Photographer Unknown

Billy Baque‘s Cuban Polaroid describes a camera’s self-contained process:

“A wooden box with the bellows and lens from a folding camera mounted at one end with a complete darkroom inside. Using photographic printing paper the photographer would expose a sheet of paper for the negative, develop, stop, and fix it inside the camera, then put a copy stand on the camera and photograph the negative (to obtain a positive), develop, stop, and fix, then wash the final print in a coffee can of water attached to his homemade tripod.”

Baque, then provides a global visual tour of street photographers using (often for official purposes) DIY cameras.

UPDATE

Joe Van Cleave commented at Baque’s site with a volley of links about photographers work in India and Bangladesh.

Mark Dummett (photographs and words) reported on Bangladeshi photographer Safder Ali. Ali’s been running his passport-sized photography business with an antique box camera by the side of a busy street in Dhaka since 1952.

View Dummett’s BBC slideshow

© Mark Dummett

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