LITTLE TIN CAMERA
Project Description
This project involved the construction of a pinhole camera to capture the tactile nature of light hitting a lens and the effects of imperfections on photographs. The rudimentary camera produces an eerie quality - there is something about the very direct result of light hitting the subject matter and then being absorbed by the film that makes the final result an emblem, an almost physical stand-in for the real thing. But while the photograph preserves its origin at a stationary point in time, the subject itself goes on, outliving the captured light.