Joseph Calvo Joseph Calvo

Remembering

This series was inspired by the personal black and white work of Saul Leiter. He captured intimate moments of daily life with his partner, free from pretense and polish. I sought to achieve a similar feeling by working with someone I was very familiar with, Angel.

This series was inspired by the personal black and white work of Saul Leiter. He captured intimate moments of daily life with his partner, free from pretense and polish. I sought to achieve a similar feeling by working with someone I was very familiar with, Angel.

I wanted to capture mundane moments such as: getting ready for the day, reading, thinking, resting, and boredom. I layered elements of the setting in the foreground and background to contribute to the familiar yet voyeuristic point of view.

Film stocks: Portra 800, Expired Agfa 100, Instax Wide, Expired FP-100C
Cameras: Pentax 67 II, Contax G2, Mamiya Universal Press

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Joseph Calvo Joseph Calvo

My First Photo Road Trip

This series follows a 5-day journey I took with Roarie and Riona up into Southern California, through Nevada, and up through Utah. We visited incredible structures and sites within nature and their human form melded with forms in nature.

The US is a gigantic country and I’ve seen very little of it. So when Roarie mentioned she had an opening for a photo trip I leapt at the opportunity. Roarie was traveling with Riona and the trip would be 5 days of driving, camping, and photographing. Roarie had done a lot of scouting in the western states and she created an itinerary based on things I was interested in and the best times of days to arrive and shoot at those locations. We departed from southern California and made our way a few hours north, we then traveled east through the bottom tip of Nevada, into Utah and up through the state. It was an incredible trip that was the highlight of my year.

Film stocks: Portra 160, Portra 400, Portra 800, Acros 100, Agfa Ultra Color 100

Cameras: Pentax 67 II, Contax G2

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