Most remote/dangerous place you've photographed?

[Frank Petronio]

What's the most remote/dangerous place you've done LF photography in and of? I am looking for images from central Asia, and haven't found any yet – have any large format "artists" made it to the headwaters of the Nile or the Amazon? Siberia? War zones?

[Kevin M Bourque]

Any place where people are eyeing you and your camera can be dangerous. There doesn't have to be headhunters and pit vipers.

But maybe I'm just jealous that I've never been to the Amazon or Siberia!

[Bill Jefferson]

Vietnam 1970, not a combat photographer

[Steve Clark]

Detroit...

[Edward (Halifax,NS)]

I haven't been anywhere remote or dangerous with my LF but back in my 35mm days I saw alot of British Columbia and Alberta. Climbing down a snow covered mountain, I slipped and slid about a km on my butt. It was in June and I was wearing shorts at the time. When I finally stopped I had to shake the snow out of my shorts.

[Mark Sampson]

Look up the woork of Luc Delahaye. Personally I've stood on the edges of a number of places I wouldn't have wanted to fall from, like cliffs, buildings, and bridges. And a few urban areas where I was glad to have someone else along- to steer traffic around the camera and photographer.

[Ralph Barker]

Years ago, I invited my ex-wife (who said she wanted to continue being friends) over to do the hair styling for one of my model shoots. Does that type of resulting war zone count?. ;-)

[anonymous]

Youngstown Ohio.

[Terence McDonagh]

A tie for Newark, New Jersey and Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY (pre-revival).

[David Karp]

This is not the most dangerous place I have been, but your comments brought to mind photographer Frank Hurley, who brought a large format camera, along with other items on Schackelton's Antartic expedition, which failed to achieve their objective, but which miraculously ended with all hands returning alive. He rushed into a sinking ship to pull out some of his plates before it went down! Talk about dedication. Here are some sites with quick blurbs about Hurley:


http://www.bfi.org.uk/videocat/more/south/main.html


http://main.wgbh.org/imax/shackleton/sirernest-two.html

I saw prints of his photographs in L.A. a few years ago, and loved the exhibition.

My experiences are quite tame. I have photographed from the edge of some cliffs, but do not enjoy the experience, and avoid it. I feel very "exposed" when under the dark cloth with no idea who or what is around me, and a cliff on one side of me! Frank Hurley I am not.

Also, I believe many war zone photographs were taken with Crown or Speed Graphics.