Tracy Calder
Tracy Calder has more than 20 years of experience in the photo industry and is a former editor of Outdoor Photography magazine. In 2018 she co-founded Close-up Photographer of the Year. She writes a free Letter to Creatives, which has more than 5.5k subscribers. To sign up, visit www.cupoty.com
There’s a picture in the book Things Come Apart 2.0 by Todd McLellan that I find fascinating. McLellan has a penchant for taking things apart: phones, typewriters, clocks; nothing is spared from this man’s screwdriver.
Once an object has been disassembled, he places the parts neatly and precisely on a plain background and photographs them from above. In the past, he has reduced a Pentax SLR to a selection of rings, screws and wires; prised apart a Polaroid camera to reveal its boxy innards and, in the picture I’m so taken by, he has perfectly arranged 580
