The Pinhole Story
In April 2024 I organised a pinhole camera workshop for some of my students. It was the first time I'd ever tried teaching the pinhole process and I was nervous as hell beforehand. However, despite wet weather and poor light, the students enjoyed it and keep asking me when I'm going to organise another one.
A couple of weeks later I did a huge digital clean-up and tried to get my general "digital dump" into some kind of order. The process meant I revisited a lot of pinhole images dating back to 2010 and my first pinhole experiments.
That's two strands to the story - the third strand goes back to February 2024 when I got hold of a copy of Book of the Road by Daniel Meadows, which in turn prompted me to look at Daniel Meadows' website that includes a fascinating collection of short videos based on photographic work. His distinctive photo-based video storytelling style inspired me to create something of my own and my pinhole photography story seemed like a good subject.
I've focussed on my first cardboard 35mm pinhole cameras and some of the images I coaxed out of them. My experiments with multiple exposure on medium format film using craftsman-made cameras may become the subject of a sequel...
Further reading: If you are not already aware of Daniel Meadows and his remarkable 1973-74 Free Photographic Omnibus project, visit his website: www.danielmeadows.co.uk.