The photographer and multimedia artist speaks about his earliest images, adopting a hawk, and taking a wild road trip to the Mexico-US border.
Because of luck, serendipity, or absurd connection, Miguel Calderón’s photographs unlock the power of things in daily life.
Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.