Still from stenop.es by Romain Alary and Antoine Levi

stenop.es from Romain A on Vimeo.
Stenop.es: Photographers Romain Alary and Antoine Levi are currently making a series of movies transforming a variety of apartments into Camera Obscuras. The two movies that are already out, Paris, France and Ghat, India are lovely and mysterious, reminding me of the work of Abelardo Morell who has been [...]

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12th Annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

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The annual worldwide pinhole photography day is fast approaching. Make plans for a workshop or outing with other pinhole aficionados and share your results. Download a copy of the poster. (Poster courtesy John Neel)

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Video About Pinhole from Nancy Breslin

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A Five Minute Introduction to Pinhole Photography from Nancy Breslin on Vimeo.
Nancy Breslin, who we interviewed here awhile back, has created a great short about pinhole photography. The film covers homemade cameras and bought camera, thoughts on long exposures and shows a lot of great examples, from Nancy as well as other artists.

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Expose for a year, gone in an instant

by Erin Malone General

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

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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 [...]

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