The largest camera

It is hard not to feel tempted to photograph the laboratory that is creating the largest camera ever built. During my rotation as a first year PhD student in the Physics department I was working with the group who is developing the hardware of the Rubin Observatory's camera at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, made out of 3,200 Megapixels.

In the first image, I took a selfie in one of the largest filters in the world. In the others I portrayed Yousuke Utsumi, Staff Scientist.

This observatory will be located at the Cerro Tololo, in Chile, just a few kilometers were I spent my childhood and grew up dreaming of becoming an astronomer. Who would have guessed I accomplished that dream. More information at https://www.lsst.org/.

I developed the film and printed a copies at the Harvey Milk Photo Center in San Francisco. Ilford 400 and 8x10 glossy RC paper.

If you want to use any of these pictures please email me at bried at stanford dot edu and/or roodman at slac dot stanford dot edu and we will give you the corresponding caption for the credits.