Sailboats and Swans OOP Equipped with a large format

Equipped with a large format view camera

and clichés of a Californian paradise

it is not simply a matter of looking

The American Series represents one of those rare experiences for photographers where the photographs almost—just—happened

From the muted blue luster of the archaic cyanotype process

Sailboats and Swans OOP Equipped with a large format"There is nothing easy about it. It is a constructed moment, a scene within a scene, the real within the unreal. They are moments, lunga fermata, suspensions of time in the midst of what might otherwise be unbearable. The images are about a kind of discomforttheirs, hers, mine and ours. It is like an old fashioned staring contestone guy looks at the other and the first one who blinks is the loser, except Michal Chelbin never blinks. Instead she