Ron Smid’s growing affinity with the large format image has taken a compelling direction in this historic project. Travelling to Nootka Island, territory of the Mowachaht people, he met Sanford Williams, a master carver. Together, they collaborated to produce a traditional cedar bentwood box that would be transformed into an ultra large format pinhole camera.
This beautifully carved object depicting the history of European contact would be used by Smid to express images of their land.

The body of work is called the Spirit of Yuquot.
These first images were photographed through the Yuquot bentwood box camera on 16 x 20 inch black and white film and are available as contact prints in an edition of 15. 

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