Category: Pinhole

Katie Cookie in “Arrangements in Black and Grey” Show at Fox Talbot Museum

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Photon Detector favorite Katie Cooke is showing some of her pinhole work at the Fox Talbot Museum:

Visit our upper gallery to see our current photography exhibition. ‘Arrangements in Black and Grey’ invites you to explore the relevance of black and white photography in the 21st century through a collection of beautiful images from six British artists, Anthony Jones, Deborah Parkin, Trevor Ashby, Nettie Edwards, Mark Voce and Katie Cooke.

Each artist approaches and uses monochrome differently, from the patient process of using a pinhole camera to producing work with only an iPhone to hand, there is more to these photographs than meets the eye.

The fine language of black and white focuses on texture, line and shape. By taking away the distraction of colour we are forced to look at the picture in a different way. The importance of light moves into the foreground and we start to understand the world in subtle tones rather than bold colour.

Show runs 12 April – 22 October, 2013 at the Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, England

Katie Cooke’s "Balancing Act" pinhole show, Edinburgh

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Relentlessly awesome photographer Katie Cooke‘s Balancing Act series of pinhole photographs opens 3 July, 2010 at Axolotl, Edinburgh, Scotland, and runs for the month.

Cooke writes, “This is a show of my long exposure self portrait pinhole photographs, mostly from the Balancing Act series that I made between 2006 and 2007, exploring the gain, loss, and regain of my ability to stand.”

Two prints from this series are hanging in my home, and they’re beautiful. Go see them in person if you can.

You can see more of her work at her web site, katiecooke.com, and here on Flickr.

Free one-day f295 photography seminar, San Francisco, US

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August 29, 2009 brings F295’s first west coast event. F295 has partnered with San Francisco State University to bring you a free seminar on 21st Century Photography. This will follow the same format as other F295 events- a day long event which exclusively features photographers talking about their work and the inspiration, ideas, and rationale behind it…

The seminar is on 29 August 2009, 10:00am – 4:30pm, at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA, US, and features talks by Jo Babcock, Martha Casanave, Susannah Hays, Kerik Kouklis, Chris McCaw, Tom Persinger, Brian Taylor, and Claudia Wornum.

Full details here on the f295 site.

Today is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

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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, grab the free plans for one of these paper cut-out do-it-yourself 35mm pinhole cameras:

The Dirkon

Nick Dvoracek‘s Populist (PDF link).

You can also make your own pinhole and mount it into a drilled-out body cap and use it on your film or digital SLR or rangefinder.

Happy shooting!

Francesco Capponi’s “Abracadabra” tophat pinhole camera

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Check out Francesco Capponi‘s latest homebrew madness, a curved-plane top hat pinhole camera. You can see pictures of, and photographs made with, the Abracadabra in this set on Flickr.

Capponi has also made pinhole cameras out of a pine nut, a birdhouse, origami, and a tree. Nice hacking!

 

Related: Weird pinhole camera roundup here on Photon Detector, Thomas Hudson Reeve’s origami/paper pinhole cameras

Thomas Graichen’s “An der Grenze des Lichts” (“The Liminality of Light”) exhibition, Berlin, DE

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Thomas Graichen is having a show of mostly pinhole and long-exposure photography as part of the 3rd European Month of Photography Berlin. He writes:

If you are in or near Berlin (Germany), I would like to invite you to my second solo exhibition called “An der Grenze des Lichts” (“The Liminality of Light”), which is a part of the 3rd European Month of Photography Berlin. The exhibition is spread across two locations in Berlin: the Galerie RS21 Berlin and the Babylon Berlin Mitte. Most of the images were created using pinhole cameras and/or long time exposures.

The first part of the exhibition will open on saturday 8th of november [2008] at 7pm at Galerie RS21 Berlin and the second part on tuesday 11th of november at 6pm at Babylon Berlin Mitte. More information about the exhibition and some sample images can be found here and at the pages of the 3rd European Month of Photography Berlin (see also here
and here)

Both Graichen’s work and the Month of Photography in general look very interesting, so if you’re near Berlin, check it out! You can see more of Graichen’s work at his web site, meer-berlin.org.

Photographs © copyright Thomas Graichen. Used with permission.

Pinhole photography workshop with Even Reece, Manukau, NZ

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Don’t miss this great opportunity to take a pinhole workshop with Dr. Evan Reece at Te Tuhi in Manukau City, Aotearoa/NZ. I’ve followed Reece’s work for some time on f295, and it’s excellent.

The nature of pinhole photography, with its hand made cameras, lies more in serendipity than automated control. In this workshop we will explore the traditional and contemporary pinhole artists. Students will make a 35mm panorama camera as well as others constructed from everyday objects.

Weekend workshop: Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th November [2008] 10am – 4pm | $150
For further information and to enroll contact 577 0138 or email enquires@tetuhi.org.nz.