All of the works shown were created with homemade pinhole cameras of various materials and formats. Pinhole photography is the most direct and primitive form of photography, involving the capture of images directly onto film without the use of a lens. After exposure and development, I frequently scan the images and manipulate them in the computer, producing an expressive hybrid of the low- and high-tech. The resulting slightly unsharp pictures have qualities which are unlike the clear, action-arresting product of a conventional camera. Because the exposure times range from seconds to hours, moving objects and people blur or ...
The Meeting, 2004
Black and White Photograph, 16 x 20 X 2 inches
