Old Friend (camera)

10 X 8 Gandolfi Field Camera, Cuban mahogany with leather bellows. Schneider 360mm Symmar-S lens. Majestic model 1200 aluminum tripod. Field camera custom ordered and hand-built by Fred Gandolfi after a shop visit and my return from England's Medway College of Design. 

Fred Gandolfi, second in from right. Borland Road, Peckham, London.

 

 

 

Over some thirty years we covered a lot of ground.

1976-1977  Black Studio Portraits (downtown studio, Sarasota, Fla.)

1977-2005  Florida Field Portraits (Southwest Florida)

1989-1990  Brazil Field Portraits (Rio de Janeiro - Pantanal)

1997  Garden Portraits (Individual sub-tropical plants outside the home) Siesta Key, Fla.

1998  Cuban Street Portraits (Havana) 

2007  "Mi Familia" (book project of family portraits) Siesta Key, Fla.