Photographer Michael Chrisman, makes extremely long exposures with his pinhole camera. Placed around Toronto, the images are dreamy and ephemeral, they capture the “trails left by the sun as it moves through the sky both throughout the day and as the seasons change.” What’s most interesting to me is that when the image is scanned [...]

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Lensless on the road

by Erin Malone Articles

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 [...]

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Historic process to capture timeless history

by Erin Malone Articles

Another canadian pinhole photographer article looks at a pretty cool pinhole project. Tod Ainslie, spent over nine years taking over 2,000 photographs of various sites related to the War of 1812. These images, some made with pinhole cameras with 6 pinholes, were recently shown in Toronto and several were purchased by the Royal Ontario Museum. [...]

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Forget the Turducken, create a pinhole ducamera

by Erin Malone Articles

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. [...]

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NPR – Your [pinhole] Photo of the Day

by Erin Malone General

Lovely pinhole image featured on NPR

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