Last week-end I finally took the time to work on a project I had put aside for almost a year.
It started when I found aluminum cans on the street. They were rendered almost perfectly flat by the repetitive passage of heavy trucks working in the industrial district I worked in last year. Another interesting fact is that the trucks doing the crushing were actually belonging to a recycling firm that transported such cans to be processed.
I liked both the almost abstract geometry they adopted and also the idea that they went from cylindrical shape to flatness in different ways each time.
I adopted the approach of photographing them in a similar way one would do to make reproduction of paintings.
I used a 4x5 Wista large format camera, a 150mm Fujinon lens, Kodak T-max 100 sheet film, a ring-flash and a second slave flash lighting the background paper from below to erase even the smallest shadows.
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