09 01 • During her first year working on Valhalla , Ross brought every camera she had available. She would occasionally make 4-by-5-inch portraits, and this one of Carston Oliver was double-exposed by accident. 02-09 • By the second year of shooting Valhalla, Ross had almost completely transitioned to shooting wet-plate collodion, so she brought her setup when she returned to Nelson in 2013. The volume of equipment is cumbersome enough—darkroom, chemicals, light, tripod, 8-by-10-inch camera, tanks and trays—but shooting in winter presented entirely new challenges. While many of the collodion portraits were taken indoors at mild tempera-tures, some were shot at a backcountry winter camp, where Ross had no way to heat up the required liquids, and low temps caused ice crystals to form on her equipment. Athletes would often have to stand nude for 30-40 seconds in the snow while posing for an image. After two days of shooting at “Camp Maui,” Ross and the crew carried her equipment out. Pep Fujas skied the delicate, finished plates safely to the bottom of the mountain. 02 • Jacob Robinson, 2013. 03 • Nick Waggoner, 2012. 04-05 • Cody Barnhill. Center photo taken on a 1915 Eastman Kodak 2D camera. 06 • Alex Monot, 2013. 07 • Pep Fujas, 2013. 08 • Lindsey Ross at Steeprock Artisans Guild near Telluride, CO, in May 2017. Photo: Andrew Schoneberger 09 • Jason Manning, Jacob Robinson, Sierra Quitquit and Todd Goruk. Lindsey Ross Gallerie 093
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