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Pinhole Visions
July, 2009 
Vol. 13 No. 7 
The Art of Pinhole Photography
Events This Week
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Fotolateras
"Ciudades enlatadas - Tinned cities"
Valencia, Spain

We show the pinhole pictures we have made in USA and Europe in the last 6 months, with the original negative.


Exhibitions

Gregg Kemp (in group show)
"Southern Exposure"
Palm Coast, Florida, United States

Hollingsworth Gallery ay Citywalk at Palm Coast, Florida will be hosting its “Southern Exposure” Group Exhibition featuring the artwork of over twenty southern artists from the southern states.


(group show)
"Curious Camera"
Tucson, Arizona, United States

Competition Exhibit, Camera Obscura, and Gallery Event. This is a photographic event not to be missed. If you entered our competition you'll see your images in the gallery. Explore the collection of toy and plastic cameras. In addition we present the work of Kathleen Velo, pinhole instructor and artist; Mathew Yates and Rosanna Salonnia of fotovitamina; Michelle Bates, "The Queen of the Plastic Camera"; and Wayne Martin Belger, pinhole camera artist. If that weren't enough - step inside our camera obscura and discover something amazing. Everyone of all ages is welcome.


Ingo Guenther (groupshow)
"LICHT-BLICKE Aktuelle Positionen und aestethische Experimente mit der Camera obscura"
Oldenburg, Germany

Five artists present their work with the camera obscura: Thomas bachler, Günther Derleth, Ingo Guenther, Volkmar Herre and Kaja Liebmann.


Margaret Lindsay Holton
"Slooow Photography... a pinholer's passion"
Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The Homer Watson House & Gallery is the homestead of Homer Watson, Canada's first noted landscape artist (1855-1936). The Gallery, constructed in 1906, is one of the oldest operating galleries in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Watson's early Victorian house was also the home of the renowned Doon School of Fine Arts during the 1950's and 60's.


Fotolateras
"Ciudades enlatadas - Tinned cities"
Valencia, Spain

We show the pinhole pictures we have made in USA and Europe in the last 6 months, with the original negative.


Diana Bloomfield (group exhibit)
"Portraits of Raleigh: Images of a City and Her People"
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

The Raleigh City Museum invited area photographers to present their concepts of a "Portrait of Raleigh." Over 350 submissions were reviewed by a jury, and the result is an eclectic glimpse of the many facets of the Capitol City. The judges met and narrowed down the field to 40 images, created by 18 area photographers, that will be featured in this exhibition. Diana has three pieces in this exhibit, two of which are pinhole.


Rob Bridson, Tom Whitehead, Graham Whitwham
"Pinhole Cameras in an Elizabethan House"
Cumbria, United Kingdom

Levens Hall, Cumbria, is a world famous Elizabethan Manor with a Grade 1 listed topiary garden. For centuries it has been painted by artists; photographers have produced classical images of the house and garden.


Upcoming Workshops

Kurt Norlin
"Pinhole Photography"
Newport, Oregon, United States

Pinhole photography is photography at its most basic. All that is required is a light tight chamber with a small hole at one end, photo- sensitive material at the other, and some simple shutter to control the exposure. Often hand made, these simple devices produce images that have unique visual qualities. The students in this workshop will learn to make simple pinhole cameras, calculate proper exposure, and produce paper negatives and prints.


David Tatnall
"Pinhole Photography"
Trentham East, Victoria, Australia

Workshop by David Tatnall exploring pinhole photography in depth.


Craig J. Barber
"Experimental Pinhole Photography"
Woodstock, New York, United States

In this two-day hands-on workshop you will learn to make your own pinhole cameras and depart from the world of hi-tech equipment to one of simplicity and liberation. Due to its infinite depth of field, the pinhole camera has unique abilities to redefine the world, whether working in extreme close up or playing with depth perception. In addition, its slight soft focus creates a dreamlike quality that is capable of rendering expressive images with an ethereal effect. It is also the perfect match for those interested in alternative processes, as you begin with an enlarged negative from the start!


Steve Gosling
"Lensless Landscapes"
Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

A 3 day workshop on pinhole landscape photography with award winning photographer & author of 'Lensless Landscapes', Steve Gosling based in picturesque Whitby on the North Yorkshire (UK) coast. Cost £280 with a max of 6 participants. See www.stevegoslingphotography.co.uk for more details.



Calls For Entries

"Photo-Alternative: The Past as Future"
Berea, Kentucky, United States

This show will celebrate the personal and alternative point of view of artists honoring the past and future in photography. All themes will be considered. Entries for this show will include images made with toy cameras and alternative photographic processes. The alternative images can be achieved digitally or by employing the actual cameras and old processes. We ask that you let us know if your entry is digital. Prizes will be awarded.


Jamie House
"Pinhole Litter Project"
Cornwall, United Kingdom

Participants wanted to take part in a collaborative pinhole project to clean up and re-engage with our surroundings, and learn about the art of pinhole photography.

Jamie invites anyone to take part in this collaborative project, he will gather people together worldwide to collect discarded drinks cans, and convert them into home-made pinhole cameras. Later these cans will take photographs of the environment they where found in, the aim is to replace litter with a creative vision, the cans are later recycled.


"4-4-4"
Le Bourget, France

The Andre Malraux Cultural Center organizes its Fourth International lensless (pinhole, zone-plate, sieve…) photography exhibition on the theme of the Four natural elements : Earth, Water, Fire and Air.


   "Who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the universe? O mighty process! What talent can avail to penetrate a nature such as these? What tonque will it be that can unfold so great a wonder? Verily, none! This it is that guides the human discource to the considering of divine things. Here the figures, here the colors, here all the images of every part of the universe are contracted to a point. O what a point is so marvelous!"

- Leonardo da Vinci

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News & Announcements

New Book: Pinhole Bodyscapes by George Arthur Lareau

George Arthur Lareau's new book of pinhole bodyscapes is now available. This album of bodyscapes was made with two pinhole cameras. Both of the cameras are commercially available for about $50 each. One is the Pinhole Blender Mini 120 and the other is the Holga 120WPC. The Pinhole Blender curves the film and multiple images can be overlapped and blended with feathered edges. The Holga is a wide-angle camera, producing 6x9cm and 6x12cm rectilinear images.

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The Pinhole Club in Montréal

"We are the Pinhole Club in Montréal. This adventured started back in 1988, with only the love of the art. About 3 years ago our small group of 5 grew as friends. For one full year this group experienced the art of pinhole - studio work, lighting, cameras etc. And then came our first exposition, 8 weeks long at Maison de la Culture Rivière des Prairies. Our site is www.clubphotostenope.com." (click on link below)

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Piano Paille Pinhole

Mabel Odessey sent me a link to a new video she has made in collaboration with pianist Stephane Sassi.

http://photoarts.com/gallery/mabel_odessey

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2009 Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - Another Successful Addition to Lensless History

Sunday evening, May 31, 2009, marked the end of Pinhole Season for the ninth annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day celebration. That is the last day that folks could submit the photograph they made on Pinhole Day itself, April 26, for inclusion in the online gallery at www.pinholeday.org.

This year's event surpassed all previous celebrations for the number and breadth of locally organized Pinhole Day events. Over 160 events were held throughout the world to mark the occasion. These included exhibitions, lectures, workshops, classroom participation and people gathered together to wander about their locale creating tiny aperture images.

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