Pinhole Photography

This page has a links to artists working with pinhole photography. Including Darren Glass, Wes Pope and Justin Quinnell. Plus links to World pinhole day and how to make a camera obscura.

Darren Glass

Darren Glass, a New Zealand based artist makes some incredible experimental pinhole camera’s. Often exhibiting the camera’s themselves next to the images.

’Glass' cameras have included a converted wheelie bin, which he rolled around town to take long duration pictures of buildings directly on to photographic paper, and a large plastic doughnut with holes punched at random around the outer rim.

He was attempting to make panoramic images of the city from the top of Maungawhau Mt Eden with the doughnut camera when he changed his mind and rolled it down the crater.’ - Adam Gifford (NZ Herald - 8/2/2005) Read more

Wes Pope

POP 66: POP CAN PINHOLE PHOTOS OF ROUTE 66 – by Wes Pope

'Since 1998 I have been photographing people and places along historic Route 66 using cameras made out of soda cans. The goal is to make images that look distorted and old while documenting modern life on the Mother Road. Along the way I met Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, Jesse Jackson, Jr. and the women of Exotic World, among many others.'

Justin Quinell

Justin Quinell came in for a recent pinhole workshop at UCW. His website has tons of tutorials on how to make camera’s