Portfolios // Pinhole Landscapes

 

These photographs are taken with a Zero Image 2000 pinhole camera, essentially just a wooden box with a small pinhole on one side and a roll of film inside. The image is created when light passes through the pinhole and hits the photographic film inside the camera. The photographs taken with a pinhole camera require very long exposures, up to fifty minutes for the shot of Lindesfarne at sunset. This means that the landscape is constantly changing with wind blowing the clouds and the movement of the sea being reduced to a blur. The end result is an almost abstract, dramatic image with a timeless quality.