Last Saturday, a group of Aperture interns and staff had the chance to visit Mike and Doug Starn’s gigantic new studio in an ex-Beacon foundry where they are creating the Big Bambú installation evolving around their photo-based projects. Big Bambú is an ever growing and changing sculpture by the Starn brothers, constructed from thousands of fresh-cut bamboo poles lashed together by a team of rock climbers working as high as fifty feet off the ground under the artists’ direction. Gaudéricq Robiliard, the director of the Starn studio and former Aperture intern, gave an engaging private tour of the studio in which some of the interns and staff even experienced climbing Big Bambú to the top!

Click here to view the album on facebook.

Click here to read the New York Times Magazine feature on the Big Bambú.

Click here to view the Starn brothers in Aperture magazine, issue 175.

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