Two shows of pinhole/camera obscura photographer Abelardo Morell‘s work are wrapping up in the next week. One at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College in Amherst, MA, US, closes this Sunday, 20 January, 2008 (details here). The other, at the University of New England Art Gallery at Westbrook College Campus in Portland, ME, US, [...]

cam.era ob.scu.ra – a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected by their own natural light through a small opening and focused onto a facing surface. For the last 15 years, Abelardo Morell has been quietly building one of the great ongoing photography projects – a view of the world through rooms [...]

This exhibition features the work of contemporary photographers who choose to have direct contact with the photographic process in its most basic chemical and alchemical form—instead of working with current digital technology, these photographers have chosen to revive archaic 19th century techniques. Artists include Chuck Close, Sally Mann, Jerry Spangnoli, Christopher Bucklow and Abelardo Morell. [...]