The designer Miguel Hurtado's a-ha moment took place one afternoon five years ago during a visit to Bahia, in northern Brazil. He was snapping pictures at Carnival when a young boy ran up to him and grabbed his camera. The kid wasn't a thief; he was trying to telegraph a warning to Hurtado that there were some bad guys in the area and that he should put the camera away because he was about to be robbed. Immediately, Hurtado stashed his gear in his potato-shaped canvas Domke, a camera bag that advertises to the world, "I am currently in possession of a very expensive camera." "Right there I started to wonder, why does a camera bag have to scream luxury?" Hurtado recalls. "Why does it have to make you a mark?"
He queried the photojournalists he knew and discovered that few used a dedicated camera bag. Some even wrapped their equipment in T-shirts and stowed them in plastic disposable bags. So he decided to design a camera bag he could carry comfortably in Cairo or Detroit, modeling it after the kind of humble canvas shoulder bag you'd purchase at an Army-Navy surplus store and sourcing his materials from a Singaporean military contractor. Dubbed Able Archer, the bag comes in muted green, with hidden waterproof zippers and detachable utility pouches instead of the usual chunky plastic clasps and noisy Velcro. He tested it out shooting pictures in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Istanbul and his native Venezuela. "I didn't feel like a tourist," he says. "I felt empowered."
Hurtado will debut the bag this weekend at Pop-Up Flea in New York. He says he has no plans to take the bag to fashion trade shows, and while he hopes that the masses will find this bag on their own, he's pretty clear about his primary intended audience. "It's for photojournalists," he says. "It's a hard life, and this is my way of giving back to an endangered field."
Hurtado will begin taking pre-orders for June delivery at Pop-Up Flea, May 9-11 at Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 West 18th Street, New York, and later this month at ablearcher.co. Prices start at $200.
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