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two toy cameras sitting side by side on a table

I started making pinhole cameras for the same reason I imagine many people do - because I could! They are deceptively simple objects - after all it’s just a box with a hole in it, right! Regardless, they are capable of producing beautifully complex images. In my early experiments I used what I could find around me - matchboxes, bits of ducting and even felted sheep’s wool. Alongside this, and armed with my trusty Ondu 135, I was learning how to produce the kind of images I wanted using…

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a person holding their hand up to an apple on top of a computer monitor screen

Want to watch the next solar eclipse without burning your eyes out? Or demonstrate how an old-timey camera worked to children who think of a camera and phone as one and the same? You can not only do accomplish these with a simple shoebox,...

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a can of biscuits next to an open photo album on a table with a black and white image

Contrary to what Apple wants you to believe, there’s more to taking a cool-looking photo than choosing which Instagram filter to apply. Few photographers know that better than Nancy Breslin, a local artist nationally renowned for her contributions to the pinhole photography scene. What the heck is pinhole photography, you ask? It’s a simple method […]

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an origami collapsible pinhole camera made out of black paper

Collapsible Origami Pinhole Camera: Last year I played around a bit with pinhole photography. A pinhole camera is the simplest form of a camera. It essentially consists of a box with a tiny hole (also called a camera obscura) , the tiny hole is often literally a pinhole, hence th…

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