Ben Horne

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Something that is probably more to the community of practices here. Pure analog. Fairly strait-forward mode of operation.

the first few minutes either make or break the material for you.

 

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Yep, I've known Ben for many years now. He works very hard at making his photo business videos on the level for everyone but primarily those photographers into Large Format landscape work.
Recently he sold off his Arca-Swiss 8x10 and is using both a Intrepid & Chamonix 8x10. I think he only uses the Intrepid when he backpacks deep into the outback so to speak.

 

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my appreciation was for his 14minutes of reflection. Actually, he was pointed out to me by someone who listens to podcasts.
My watching his work/bts brings up "slow cinema" concept.

• Arnheim R. (1993) From Pleasure to Contemplation. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51: 195-197.
• Bíro Y (2008) Turbulence and flow in film – The rhythmic design. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Boer J (2015) As slow as possible: An enquiry into the redeeming power of boredom for slow film viewers. Unpublished Paper, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
• Doane MA (2002) The emergence of cinematic time – Modernity, contingency, the archive. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Flanagan M (2012) Slow Cinema: temporality and style in contemporary art and experimental Film. PhD thesis, University of Exeter, UK.
• Margulies I (1996) Nothing happens – Chantal Akerman’s hyperrealist everyday. Durham, London: Duke University Press.
• Wollen P (2000) Time in video and film art. In: Capellazzo A (ed) Making time: considering time as a material in contemporary video and film. Palm Beach, Fla.: Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, pp.7-13.

it seems unlikely that any of these are guiding him in choice of action, nevertheless, someone may pick up the subject in their own methods.

 

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Ben's videos go back to about 2013 as I recall. There is a mixture of both studio & field work posted on his Youtube channel. I've known Ben prior to those days as members of the original Nature Photographers Network which was updated a few years back to a more modern platform.
The studio presentations are usually based upon his gear updates and review of the hardware. His field work is most always his usage of 8x10 film work. I think he had a few around digital usage but he never spent much time doing that work at all as I recall.
Ben Horne Youtube Channel