Yet another new direction?

As I went around these non transient places I noticed there were people who in fact did stop and reside in these places such as the homeless. I want to investigate how these people have just blended into the background of our ordinary lives and seem to go unnoticed.

More Pin Hole

First successful photos

First successful photos using the box pinhole camera. It took days to figure out the exposure times which on a overcast day outdoors was above 45 minutes...after a lot of trail and error these were the only really presentable images out of about 50 that were taken...much more time consuming then I thought it would be...After these tests I moved onto my subject of transient places and non_places...

New Camera

A few photos of my bigger and better pinhole camera. Made from plywood,sealed with duct tape and glue, sprayed black and used an aluminum plate as a pin hole, also sealed with duct tape.

Miroslaz Tichy

Another artist I came across was a fascinating character named Miroslav Tichy. Tichy lived in Prague most of his life which was under communist and soviet rule at the time. Between 1960 and 1985 Tichy, dressed in rags and living a poor vagrant life, took thousands of photos mostly of women using homemade pinhole cameras that most people thought were fake cameras of a mad and eccentric homeless man, often posing for him never realizing that these cameras were taking real photos.Tichy was just that, an eccentric, and he was held prisoner for almost a decade in soviet labor camps for basically being an eccentric homeless artist. He was seen by the soviets as being a dissident and unhelpful to the communist cause. Upon his release in the early 70's he continued using his homemade cameras to capture fleeting glimpses of people he would never know or could get close to. His images are fascinating to me, badly spotted and printed, often obscured by a wire fence that add to the artistic and poetic imperfections that Tichy's self imposed isolation must have felt at the time.

Pin hole photographers: Adam Fuss

In the meantime i researched different pinhole photographers one of which was Adam Fuss. Fuss became a distinguished artist by embracing a huge range of historical and contemporary photographic techniques, one of  which is pinhole photography. His use of this captures his subjects in a dynamic and emotion laden way that i admire. I also like the over exposure of the outer edges and shadows  of his images.

After extensive testing with the tin can pinhole camera pictured below this was the only image of note. A disused area under a bridge in limerick city center.  The tin can leaked too much light and the images were very small so i decided to make a much bigger and light proof camera.

Long time no post....

Been too long since i have updated this blog...been real busy with this building pinhole cameras, testing the developing times, developing the images and researching....so i am going to do a big blog update to catch up to where i am progressing to next.....