Posted by Gregg Kemp on December 13th, 2005 — Posted in Spirit of Pinhole
Even before it landed in the kitchen trashcan, my hand was reaching for the empty coffee bag I just tossed. I rarely let solid containers like cans or boxes go to the trash before evaluating their potential as a pinhole camera. But I hadn’t considered something as flimsy as a bag being a camera. This was a Starbucks Columbian coffee bean bag, made of aluminum foil, light-tight (I assumed), and would hold a 4×5 negative. It suddenly sounded like a camera to me. (more…)
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Posted by Gregg Kemp on June 20th, 2006 — Posted in Spirit of Pinhole
A couple of months ago I got an email from the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art telling me about a “pinewood car” race they were putting on. It seems that artists in the Northeastern US had been building and racing their “pinewood cars” for several years and now SECCA was inviting them down South to take on artists from the Southeast. Sounded like a “photo op” to me, so I began working on a design for a pinhole camera pine car racer, or a PINholE CAmeRa RACER.
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Posted by Gregg Kemp on June 20th, 2006 — Posted in Spirit of Pinhole
I got another email yesterday, from Tarja Trygg in Finland, discussing her Solargraphy project. It had these wonderful images of multiple arcs of the sun. I found it all very fascinating and wrote to Tarja to learn more. That resulted in a brief news story on the Pinhole Visions website, plus I became one of her “can assistants”. (more…)
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Posted by Gregg Kemp on July 19th, 2006 — Posted in Pinhole Photography, Spirit of Pinhole
Like a lot of people, I learned about pinhole photography in college, in a basic photography course. For me, that was in 1972. Some pinhole evangelists (from Georgia I believe) were travelling through and showed us their cameras and photos they had made. I think most of us were pretty amazed at what they were doing. (more…)
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