Artist's Statement

Pinhole photography for me is an experience; a spiritual happening that is indeed rare. For when you finally discover what this medium is truly all about, you enter into a mysterious realm unlike any other you have ever experienced before. You enter a place where a "moment" is recorded; a place where reality changes in unique ways; unlike the way a conventional camera captures only a split second of time; Sometimes I feel like it is a rare glimpse into another dimension and time. One that can only be captured by this unique but yet simple camera that utilizes only a pinhole for a lens.

Acknowledgements

I'd like to thank Gregg Kemp for helping me put this pinhole documentary together, and also thank my sweetheart Janet for all her help, my mother, my brother William, Guy Glorieux, Andy Schmitt, Bernice Halpern Cutler (leezy hightower), Jean Daubas, Tom Miller, Zernike Au and the multitude of pinholers who sent me get well pinhole images and messages. I'd also like to thank the kind folks at the American Cancer Society for their generous help during my illness, and the folks at the Fort Belvoir Chapel and Sunday School for their prayers.

I shot the majority of the work in this exhibition with the Zero 2000 pinhole camera and T-Max 100 film.

Tom Lindsay