Steve irvine pinhole photographer biography examples

I use several very different cameras for my pinhole camera photography. Some of the black and white photos are made with an odd homemade camera that has three shutters and a curved film plane.

Each shutter points in a different direction and the images overlap on the film. I wanted to have a camera that would create a radically different type of image from our usual perspective, to open up new creative possibilities, and to make the most of the inherent characteristics of a pinhole camera.

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A flat plane film holder can also be inserted behind the middle shutter to make more conventional images with the side shutters closed.

I also use ceramic cameras. These are both wheel thrown and hand built, and fired in a reduction kiln to 1,300 degrees centigrade.

With two of the cameras the film is on the circular inner wall of the pot. Being curved, the film gets a wide angle view through the pinhole.

Another camera I use for black and white work is a simple can with a pinhole