Experimental media
Artist research
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.
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What started my interest into pinhole was a guest lecture by JUSTIN QUINELL, his character made me take really intrigued in pinhole and how he was talking about it you can hear the passion he has for pinhole and photography as a whole.
Here is some information about the workshop he did for us at UCW.
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Barbara Ess artist research
The groundbreaking artist Barbara Ess was, in the words of Kim Gordon, “a true inspiration, exuberant and brave.” Known primarily for her large-scale photographs made with a pinhole camera, Ess experimented with the distorting effects of this medium for decades before turning her attention to reappropriating footage from the surveillance cameras policing the US border. Her mysterious images transformed the spaces and details of everyday life into strange, liminal landscapes and phantasmagoric phenomena, challenging and playing with perceptions of distance and proximity; real and unreal.
Born in Brooklyn in 1944, Ess was on the cutting edge of New York‘s no wave scene, editing and organising the experimental cult-status zine Just Another Asshole which launched in 1978. She was a prolific collaborator in other mediums too, forming bands and making music with various musicians and artists throughout her career.
After she passed away earlier this month, we pay tribute to this hugely influential artist by highlighting some of the important lessons we’ve learned from Barbara Ess and her extraordinary lifelong insatiable artistic experimentation.