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Today is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day!

Posted April 27, 2008 in Pinhole + Workshops

Make some pinhole photos, pick your best one, and upload it to the WPPD gallery (free)! Don’t have a pinhole camera? No problem! There are workshops and exhibits of pinhole photography all over the world today where you can build or use one, check the events listings for your area. If there’s nothing near you, [...]

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Lomographic Society continues to suck, co-opts Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

Posted April 22, 2008 in Kit/Equipment + Pinhole

The goons at the Lomographic Society International—the people who brought the world the $20 Holga for $70 and monopolistic control over the distribution of the Lomo LC-A camera—have now added Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day to the list of products and events they had nothing to do with creating that they’ve claimed as their own. The [...]

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Tiny "PinHolo" pinhole camera made from pine nut

Posted March 13, 2008 in Camera Hacking & DIY + Pinhole

Francesco Capponi made this pinhole camera out of a pine nut! It shoots 18×7mm frames. Check out the rather awesome portraits he made with it here. Thanks to Decepticrat for the heads-up; via MAKE Blog

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Video: Polaroid Super Shooter pinhole conversion

Posted January 27, 2008 in Camera Hacking & DIY + Pinhole

Check out this two-part video tutorial by Michael C. Pastur on converting a Polaroid Super Shooter camera (tied with the SLR680 as my new favorites) into a pinhole camera. Thanks to Captoe for the heads-up! Part 1 Part 2

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Abelardo Morell: two shows and one lecture

Posted January 18, 2008 in Exhibitions

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, [...]

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Homemade 6×17 stretch Pinholga

Posted October 23, 2007 in Camera Hacking & DIY + Pinhole

Shikihan made this insane 6×17 "Limousine" pinhole camera out of a Holga! You can see two test shots made with it in Tokyo here and here on Flickr. She’s made a bunch of other cool pinhole cameras (and makes great photos with them), check them out!

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Interview with Therese Brown

Posted October 1, 2007 in Interviews + Pinhole

Chris Keeney talks to pinhole/Holga/Polaroid experimental photographer Therese Brown as part of his excellent ongoing series of interviews with fine art photographers. You can see Brown’s work at her Web site, ThisIsWhatISee.com as well as on Flickr. This one’s a must-read, so do it at ChrisKeeney.com.

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Call for entry: pinhole urban nature

Posted September 21, 2007 in Calls for Entry

Marie-Noëlle Leroy says: The Andre Malraux Cultural Center of Le Bourget (France) organizes his second International lensless Photographic Exhibition ! Uniquely pinhole, zone-plate, sieve… The topic of the exhibition is: Urban Nature Urban nature! From the flowers on the balcony to the dogged bit of grass growing between the paving stones of the streets, from [...]

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Without Lenses issue #2 is up

Posted August 23, 2007 in Books & Publications + Interviews + Pinhole

Erin Malone, editor of Without Lenses, "a quarterly journal exploring the art and craft of lensless photography", says: This quarter brings a host of new interviews, the start of our technical article series and new features courtesy of our new content management system—Public Square. Our two interviews are with a representative, Yvette Pasqua, of the [...]

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Camp Obscura pinhole photography workshop, NM, US

Posted August 15, 2007 in Workshops

Check out the Camp Obscura pinhole photography workshop led by Jackie Mathey: Construct your own 4×5 super wide pinhole camera. Expose images using black and white photographic paper and film. Develop your own images. Quick viewing with digitally scanned images. Craft your images into works of art with the cyanotype printing process. Create a camera [...]

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