I particularly liked to solarize the Litho in the darkroom. The huge surface area of the negatives provides a lot of information to explore. I develop my own color negatives so I can tweak the process at any point. I use black and white film and print chemistry on color films and vary the temperatures and timing on everything. Expired films seem to work best for me, they carry their own surprising quirks and I feel less precious about the investment, consequently I'm even more inclined to break the rules and take risks.

- Claudia Wornum

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Photo By: Claudia Wornum
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Pinhole photography (or the camera obscura) is a heavily intuitive process concerned more with creating a mood than delivering an image wrapped in the trappings of reality. Simple in theory, the process, predating modern photography, is quite tricky. What isn’t left to luck is owed to plenty of practice, precision, and experimentation.

-Darius Kuzmickas

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Pinhole 109, Water
Photo By: Darius Kuzmickas
HP.2012.15.1208

I try to experience life, the spiritual as well as the mundane, on many levels. In nature there is the excitement that comes from feeling at one with creation. In the city I tune myself to people and the manmade rhythms of life. The harmonizing atmosphere I find at sacred places creates a bridge between the two. What I feel, see, and hear somehow come together in the multidimensional world. I glimpse the “essence of being”.


The many activities of everyday living keep me busy. When I pay attention I know who and what I am. When I really look at life, I am able to see a bigger world and enjoy my role in it. In these moments I feel the “essence of being”. Through the magic of it all I experience the fun as well as the seriousness of life.


As a photographer it is necessary to be very aware of one’s surroundings. Looking for images keeps me focused; the resulting photographs help me to remember.

-Edward Levinson

http://www.edophoto.com/state01_m.html

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Coffee High, Tokyo

Photo By: Edward Levinson


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Art and life are one. Doing my artwork is a way of checking in, a form of self-portraiture.  My work generally has always been autobiographical, about what`s going on inside me. There are so many fragments of life. I bring the pieces together.

-Valerie Burke

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Visions of Endless Hope

From: Through the Pinhole series

Photo By: Valerie Burke

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I’ve often heard myself say that if I could make a photograph with just my eyes and brain and not this clumsy and noisy mechanical device, I would be very happy.  Using a pinhole camera comes closer to this ideal.

- Martha Casanave

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Man on Cliff - Coastal Pinholes

Photo By: Martha Casanave

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Excerpt from:

Martha Casanave, “Interview”, Pinhole Journal, Vol. 3 #3 (1987): 2.

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Pinhole Photography: From Historic Technique to Digital Application

by: Eric Renner