STRANGER a DAY : 2004

Since January 1st, 2004 Roark Johnson has been photographing strangers, people he doesn't know, once a day, every day. He's using an 8X10 Deardorff. Unlike Roark, it's a camera that commands attention, respect and awe. Join him and come back weekly as he risks being rejected by those faces he wants so much to photograph.

  thanks to coincidences

Taking a portrait a day with a 35mm camera would be an accomplishment. Taking these with a camera as big and bulky as an 8x10 is pretty amazing. An 8x10 contact print is a thing of beauty. The web could never show the subtleties of tone that are characteristic of a large contact print.