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Scan of a 5x5cm print from a pinhole camera. This came out of a soup package!

Pinhole Photography Workshop this Friday, 13 December!

Learn the most hands-on, DIY, back-to-the-basics approach to photography there is: Pinhole Photography. This Friday, 13 December at 11:00 there will be a workshop on making a camera out of a shoebox. Or one of those plastic just-add-water soup packages. The picture above came out of a soup package. Really.

The workshop will last about six hours, beginning at 11:00. Participation fee is 20 euros including materials – paper, chemistry, construction supplies – but please, bring your own shoebox or soup thing. I can only buy so many shoes. After going over the basics of why this works at all (essentially, a brief history of the camera), you will be guided through building a camera yourself, from the box and basic supplies. At that point we will go into the darkroom, load our cameras, and then go out on the street and shoot. We’ll develop the pictures right away, and we should have enough time (read: daylight) to do this a couple of times. In the end, participants can take home not only their own cameras but also the photos made in them and hand-developed in the darkroom. It’ll be fun!

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Scan of a 5x5cm print from a pinhole camera. This came out of a soup package!

Scan of a 5x5cm print from a pinhole camera. This came out of a soup package!

Pinhole Photography Workshop on 30 August

Join in for a workshop on Pinhole Photography on 30 August at 6pm. In this workshop we will turn a box into a camera. We will go over why a pinhole camera works at all, then we will build pinhole cameras. After that, we’ll load our pinhole cameras in the darkroom and go out and shoot. Of course, we’ll go back into the dakrooom and develop these pinhole photographs. This is an excellent way to get into the darkroom, to start with black and white analog photography, or to experiment a bit more. Check out more on this course and others or sign up by sending an email here.