Pinhole photograph of anti-cuts demonstration in London, 26 March 2011

I found an interesting works of Phil Coomes on BBC website. While other photographers use digital camera to capture the moment on March 26th, he use pinhole camera.


from BBC

It is time to put aside your digital camera or phone and get back to basics.

This Sunday, 24 April, is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, a celebration of the simplest form of photography.

It seems to me there is a resurgence of interest in less complicated styles, where the technology does not overwhelm the end result or indeed the photographer.

There is nothing simpler than a pinhole camera, a black box with a pinhole on one side that allows light to fall on a piece of photographic film or paper.

To show off the work of a few of the many talented pinholers out there I have created agallery on Flickr of their work and you can see pinhole themed pictures from our readers' as part of our weekly themed galleries.Whilst covering the recent anti-cuts demonstration in London I carried a film camera loaded with TMax 3200 black-and-white film fitted with a pinhole body cap, a standard camera cover with a tiny hole at the centre. The results (top and right photos) were somewhat patchy, though you can see a few more examples on my Flickr page, but it was fun to do and something I will explore further.

One photographer who is doing far more than this is Lucy Phillips. I first met her at the Association of Photographers Gallery where we were both exhibiting work at their Celebration of Kodachrome show earlier this year. Chatting to Lucy I found out that she is working on a participative project using pinhole pictures entitled What Cannot Be Seen.  

























Anti-cuts protester in Hyde Park