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How to Build a 4x5" Pinhole Camera
Take that first step to making pinhole images! Earl Johnson guides us through step-by-step instructions to make the simplest, easy to use, pinhole camera from black foam-core board and tape.
08/21/2007 23:08 8 Comments **** (3 Votes)
Magic on the Playa
Each summer in late August, August 27 through September 3, 2007 this year, thousands of people travel to the remote and barren Black Rock desert of Nevada for the art festival Burning Man. Home for a week to artists, and revelers, it is also home to the Pinhole Camp.
08/21/2007 23:08 2 Comments **** (2 Votes)
Imagined Spaces
A look behind the vision and work of Lou Krueger. Fascinated by his work and the combination of intricate dioramas he constructs and the custom cameras he makes to take the images, WL talked to Lou this summer and he peels back some of the mystery by sharing his processes and taking us behind the scenes of these fascinating constructions.
08/21/2007 23:08 8 Comments **** (10 Votes)
Building Confidence: Pinhole Workshops with The New Orleans Kid Camera Project
Benjamin Wooten talks about his experience with the New Orleans Kid Camera Project where the kids not only made pinhole images, but created their own cameras and painted them. The images are wonderful and the story is a testament to the power that children have to find joy even in the worst of situations.
12/02/2007 14:30 0 Comments ***** (1 Vote)
A Pinhole Diary of Eating Out
Nancy Breslin, takes her pinhole camera everywhere and brings it out for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Over the last several years she has dined, documented and created over 600 images. Starting in the fall of 2002, she took the images online in 2003. Without Lenses asked Nancy to elaborate on how she started this project and where she is going from here.
12/02/2007 00:00 0 Comments      (0 Votes)
Drill Your Own Precision Pinhole Apertures
Matching an appropriately sized pinhole to a particular camera’s focal distance will yield the best, “sharpest” image. This tutorial shows how to easily make your own pinholes that are fairly accurate in size and shape.
03/18/2008 22:07 2 Comments ***** (1 Vote)
Camera Roundup
Brief conversations with three pinhole camera makers.
03/18/2008 22:52 0 Comments ***** (1 Vote)
Catching Light :: Making Cameras with Artist Jo Babcock
Joseph Babcock shares his thoughts about his work, his influences and ideas about what makes him tick as a creator of cameras and their corresponding images.
04/29/2007 00:00 1 Comment ***** (1 Vote)
Noriko Ohba: Featured Artist
Featured Artist: Noriko Ohba A brief look at the work of Japanese artist Noriko Ohba.
03/18/2008 22:06 1 Comment      (0 Votes)
Visiting with Craig J. Barber
Craig J. Barber is a photographer who travels and works exclusively with the pinhole format and focuses on the cultural landscape. Without Lenses and Craig chat about his work and his new book, Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited.
04/30/2007 00:00 0 Comments ***** (1 Vote)
Spreading the Pinhole Love :: Behind the Scenes with Tom Persinger of f295
On the eve of the first f295 Symposium, WL speaks with Tom Persinger, about his role as an evangelist in the Pinhole community and thoughts about his own work as a photographer.
04/29/2007 00:00 1 Comment ***** (1 Vote)