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Check out Strecker’s open studio show of recent works in Center Sandwich, NH, US. 10% of sales will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.

Check out this gallery of photos comparing pinholes to zone plates from pinhole/zone plate camera manufacturer Zero Image.

Without Lenses, "a quarterly journal exploring the art and craft of lensless photography", has just launched with three interviews:

• Spreading the Pinhole Love :: Behind the Scenes with Tom Persinger of f295
• Catching Light :: Making Cameras with Artist Jo Babcock
• Visiting with Craig J. Barber

Check it out at WithoutLenses.com.

Roger Cline walks you through making perfect pinholes and zone plates with a vector drawing program and computer-printed film from a graphic arts service bureau.

While zone plates are always made with film of some sort, I’m curious about light transmission loss using film compared to an empty hole for a pinhole. Anyone have info on this?

Read instructions at Cline & Company

Join us for this lively and engaging workshop in which we’ll investigate the artisanal qualities of lensless photography. Participants can expect to discuss the historical and contemporary uses of lensless photography, learn about different camera options and then design and construct a camera to achieve different types of images. Spend time using the camera(s) to make images and developing/printing those images in the darkroom. We’ll also enjoy discussions regarding the counterpoint these "primitive" techniques play in the world of contemporary photography, peer review of participants pinhole work, and how the longer exposures inherent to pinhole work affect both the images and the act of making them.

The workshop runs 8–10 September, 2007 at the Peters Valley Craft Center, 19 Kuhn Rd Layton, NJ, US. It will be run by Tom Persinger, who is an accomplished pinhole camera builder & photographer, runs the f295 Lensless Photography and Alternative and Adapted Process photography fora, is the organiser of the upcoming 2007 Symposium on Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes, and has written numerous magazine articles on lensless imaging. In short: you’re in good hands!

Skill Levels: Beginner to Advanced
Tuition: $325
Lab Fee: $30

You can register online.

Via Pinhole Visions

Linn-Benton Community College is seeking submissions for Light Box IV, a postal art show of toy camera, pinhole, and zone plate photography.

Due: February 17, 2007

Show Dates: February 20 to April 6, 2007

Format: Two postcards with a brief statement of why the photographer uses that method of photography as a means of personal expression on each card. (Any photographic media - color, B/W, digital). Cards will be displayed together so both the image and the statement can be seen at once (see example below.

Mail to:

Kurt Norlin
Art Department
Linn-Benton Community College
6500 Pacific Blvd. SW
Albany, OR 97321
USA

For additional information, contact Kurt at norlink@aol.com

Via Slowlight Pinhole Blog via the Spitbite Pinhole List

Prolific camera builder Eric Molczan published plans for a cheap & easy-looking DIY shutter for pinhole and zone plate cameras.

Check it out at f295

The Controlled Light Leak: Beyond the Oatmeal Container with Scott McMahon

August 4-8 (5 day)

Learn new methods of pinhole imaging, camera design and concept. Participants will investigate the different principles of pinhole and construct and then photograph with their own camera creations. We will experiment with and even make our own zone plates (a distant relative of pinhole), retrofit existing cameras, 35mm, medium and large format, Holga, even digital pinhole apertures. We will also explore slit imaging and multiple pinholes in this 5-day lens-free extravaganza.
Beginner to advanced.

Scott McMahon received his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where he is currently teaching Non-Silver Printmaking. Scott also teaches photography at the University of Pennsylvania and is former Department Head of Photography at Peters Valley. His work has been published in Pinhole Photography, Rediscovering a Historic Technique by Eric Renner, The Book of Alternative Photographic Process by Christopher James as well as Pinhole Journal Vol. 11#1, Vol. 12 #1, and Vol. 15 #2. Scott has exhibited throughout the United States in many group and solo exhibitions.

Tuition: $425
Lab Fee: $50

Please contact Andy Schmitt - aschmitt AT aandy DOT org
or
Peters Valley Craft Center
19 Kuhn Rd
Layton, NJ 07851
US

This years Photography concept is "From Dag’s to Digital"

Please check it out at petersvalley.org

Via the f295 Pinhole Forum