Sunday, November 04, 2007

The HOLE Barrio


This project in progress is the pinhole vision of my neighborhood during different seasons of the year.
Pinhole photography is the making of photographs by the use of a camera that is fitted with a tiny hole; know as a pinhole, in the place of lens.
Pinhole photography produces very unique images. The overall soft focus creates unique romantic photographs, which reminds us of the times of 1880’s pictorial photography.
This process is very slow. First I had to build my own cameras, load the light-sensitive material (in this case paper) in the darkroom, then go out and take only one picture.
I started to modify medium format cameras from the early 1920’s to pinhole film cameras, which allow me to use a 120 roll film and to take more than one picture.