Some Pinholes from Civita
I spent a month in Civita di Bagnoregio, an Etruscan hilltop town in Italy on a fellowship from the Civita Institute, (civitainstitute.org). Since I arrived home mid-December, I have been scanning and editing images. I am still not done but three days ago, finished...
Civita: A Month at Night
I have been in Civita di Bagnoregio for the past month shooting pinhole photographs on a fellowship. Civita is a surreal, isolated hilltop town north of Rome and I fell in love with It. It survived largely due to the work of an architect, Astra Zarina and her...
Connie
Has it really been almost seven years since you passed ? So many of our times together seem like they just happened. I have been channeling you babe, makes me want be better, as if you were still here. So my resolution for this year is to cook! Yes cook real...
Some Weddings Shot with the Pinhole Camera: Thoughts and Images
I shoot weddings with my pinhole camera. Recently I shot three wonderful weddings of people I know well. These are not typical wedding photographs. I generally shoot four images on 4 x 5 color negative film; the exposures vary with the available light but can be...
Frayed Edges
It is an interesting question (to me at least) why I stop where I stop to photograph, why I photograph what I photograph. After all these years I have realized that I seem to be attracted to a certain type of subject matter. About fifteen years ago it became clear...
Shooting the Climate Strike March with the Pinhole
I decided recently that almost everything I shoot going forward will be with a pinhole camera on film. In a world where the average photographer will take several hundred images of an event like the recent Climate Strike March in Seattle, it was not really an easy...
Confessions on Technique
I know this about myself: I often make photographs and then don't look at the actual images for a year, sometimes more. I can easily ignore whole bodies of work as I shoot them. I am not kind of photographer who shoots, reviews, edits, prints, then shoots more. For...
Chase the Light
Each year about this time, Photographic Center NW has a fundraising event (https://www.pcnwchasethelight.org/). In the past it has been called Long Shot. This year it is called Chase the Light, which is what we photographers do. Anyone can shoot during a 48 hour...
Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography at the New Mexico History Museum
I was thrilled a few years back when I received a mysterious package in the mail. It was a pinhole camera which I had sent to Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer the year before. They of course are the co-directors of Pinhole Resource and incredible pinhole photographers...
Return to the Lava Beds National Monument
Three years ago, I drove to the Lava Beds National Monument in Northern California to rephotograph an Eadweard Muybridge landscape. I should not say I drove because I was driven both then and now. Three years ago I left my black hoody way up a hill where we decided to...