Pinhole photography is a lensless method of making photographic images. In this class we will make our own cameras from found objects: cans or boxes or any light-tight container. We will make negatives with photographic paper and then learn how to make paper positives. (Students can use film if they like but will not be able to develop it on site.) This class is well suited to artists in other media (including writers) who want to expand their image-making tools, to photographers who would like to work in a looser and less restrictive way, without the aid of view finders and light meters, or to those who would like to experiment with the non-linear, mysterious way the pinhole camera sees the world. Knowledge of photography is useful but not necessary. Participants may bring plastic film cameras and/or digital cameras to convert to pinhole cameras, but everyone will be expected to make their own camera as well. Chemicals and photography paper will be supplied. Bring at least one light-tight can or box.
This class will be taught out of the artist’s studio in Provincetown. Directions will be supplied upon registration.
Marian Roth has been making photographs for thirty-five years and has worked exclusively with pinhole imagery for the past fifteen. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Fellowship. She received a fellowship and residency from the C-Scape Dune Project to convert a dune shack to a pinhole camera. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she is represented locally by the Kobalt Gallery. Marian lives and works in Provincetown.
