ABOUT THIS EVENT

Event Category

Arts & DIY

Event Overview

This workshop will explore the art and technique of creating images using lensless cameras. The pinhole will be your gateway to the prehistory of photographic images! Pinhole cameras can be made from empty paint cans (some available at the workshop) parts of beer/soda cans, butter cookie tins, shoe boxes, and sewing needles. We will also explore how to turn your Digital SLR or Mirrorless camera into a creative pinhole device.

These simple cameras can create complex, intricate or dreamlike images. It’s up to you! Along the way, you will see many examples of lensless and pinhole images in person and presentation. Both simple darkroom techniques and digital lensless cameras will be utilized. Get in touch with the expressive, quirky and unpredictably beautiful origins of photography.

Instructor:

Russ Rosener began working with pinhole cameras and alternative processes at the Visual Studies Workshop. His graduate professor Joan Lyons was one of the pioneers who resurrected these techniques in the 1960s.

Russ has taught all aspects of Photography & Video at institutions such as Washington University, Herron School of Art and currently Lindenwood University. His work has been exhibited in St. Louis, Rochester NY, San Francisco CA as well as abroad in the Czech Republic and Italy.

Minimum age

All ages welcome

What's Provided

paint cans, photographic paper, developing chemicals, and everything that is needed to create an image using a pinhole camera, which the students will make during the workshop.

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