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The next best thing to turning a car or van into a pinhole camera?
A camera obscura trailer that you take along on your road trip. Two students did just that last summer and recorded images from New York to Prince Edward Island. The resulting work has ended up in a show and a book [...]

From last year, Hong Kong photographer Martin Cheung, shares his experience of making a camera out of a roasted duck.
“Roast duck is such a symbol of Chinese cooking, so I wanted to see how the duck saw Chinatown,” he says.
This has got to be one of the strangest articles on photography I have read. [...]

An article in the Montreal Gazette by Peter Balkwill, talks about taking up the lowly plastic Holga and then discovering the wonder of pinhole. I love this quote, which sums up what working with pinhole is all about to me.
“My entire relationship with the idea of taking pictures changed. At the outset, shooting with [...]

Worldwide pinhole day happens on the last Sunday of April each year. Events, workshops, gallery exhibitions and lectures are happening around the world as part of this event. The WPPD site offers listings of related events as well as a growing collection of photos from each WPPD. Don’t forget to submit yours this year.