Johnny McMillan is curating a group show of Holga work by Ireland-based photographers. It will open 22 February, 2007, at Monster Truck Studio and Gallery in Dublin.
Email submissions (max. 5 JPGs) to info@johnnymcmillan.com no later than Tuesday, 30 January, 2007. (Direct all enquiries to the same address.) Photos made with modified Holgas, including PinHolgas, are acceptable. Show Dublin what the Holga’s about!
No entry fee.
The not-for-profit Zoom In Photography School are having a pinhole workshop at their location in Clapham. Their course prospectus begins:
The Pinhole Photography course is a fun way to learn and demystify the mechanics of your camera. Deliberately structured to help you understand your own camera better but also providing essential skills in those who wish to develop this old photographic technique in their photographic art work. You will cover everything from preparing your camera, constructing your camera using simple mathematical formula to taking meter readings and photographs and processing positive images from your negatives.
Continue reading at Zoom In
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Tom Burke—whose work you should in all circumstances check out—has a show hanging at Roonee 247 Photography, Tokyo, JP, from 30 January – 4 February, 2007.
Concept T-Shirts’ Art Bollocks Generator spews wonderfully incoherent art bullshit. For instance:
An exploration to morph a counter-intuitive post-modernism whilst not releasing calculations seen only as sound granules of the vortex.
You get a new one every time you reload the page. "Use your art bollocks to amaze people with the complex thoughts embodied in your art…" Endless fun!
See also: Joel Swanson‘s Art Crit Bingo
Regional Reflections will feature pinhole photographs of amusement parks by Delaware artist Nancy Breslin, and jewelry by Pennsylvania artist Caryn Hetherston.
The show runs 22 January – 1 March, 2007 at Elkton Station Gallery, 107 Railroad Avenue (click for map), Elkton, MD, US. Hours are 8am – 8pm, Monday to Friday.
You can see more of Breslin’s work at her Web site, Flickr, and fotolog.
Group show of six photographers. One part, "Home Studies" by Cella & Knoll, is pinhole photography with a twist:
"Process: We blacken the rooms with tarp and tape, then allow sketchy ambient light to seep through, illuminating the interior without losing the upside down exterior projection created by a single small hole, transforming the room into a giant camera obscura. We then photograph the rooms with a 4×5 for anywhere between four hours and a week."
The show runs Friday, 9 February – 9 March, 2007 at The University of Maine‘s Art Gallery, 5743 Lord Hall, Orono, ME, US. Weekday gallery hours are from 9am to 4pm.
Via Pinhole Visions
Mac A. Cody writes:
On one of my robots, I wanted to place a camera that could observe everything around it. The camera did not have to have a high frame rate. It was not going to be used for motion capture or real-time autonomous driving. It did need to have a 360 degree field of view. Think in terms of the cameras on the Mars Viking landers of the 1970s.
PanoramaScanCam™ is my implementation of a panoramic camera implemented using the components of a flatbed scanner. This is not an original concept. Flatbed scanners have been used as cameras by a number of experimental photographers…
Via MAKE Blog
120 is a number that specifies the format of the film. Remember 110? Disc? Same thing. There is no measurement of 120 film that is 120mm: not of the film itself, the paper backing, the spool it’s on, any of the standard frame sizes shot on it, or, likely, even the paper band that holds it closed. Calling 120 120mm is like calling Disc film Discmm: it’s incorrect and makes no sense.
I’ve put together an index of film codes/edge markings, data sheets links, available formats, large format notch codes, and more, for every photographic film in production that I could find info for.
Please email me with any corrections or additions! (Include a link to your Web site, if you have one, so I can credit you in the contributors section.)
The index is here on Photon Detector (in the Tools & Reference section).
An update listing instant films will follow soon. Enjoy!
A show of Mr. E Cipher‘s work opens Wednesday February 7th, 2007, at Revival House, 42 High St., Westerly, RI, US. Judging by his work on Flickr and his Web site, mr-e-cipher.com, it should be nothing short of spectacular, squarely the you’ll-regret-it-if-you-miss-it territory. If you’re in the area, go!