Claudia Wornum
San Francisco, California
16. McGee Creek $250
17. Mammoth Panorama #2 $250
Visual Edge 2002
Photography's Full Circle:
The Pinhole Perspective
Juried Exhibit,
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Claudia Wornum
Cassie Tondro
Michelle Bruzzese
John A. Fobes
Connie Begg
Guy Glorieux
Gisele Comtois
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Claudia Wornum
San Francisco, California
16. McGee Creek $250
17. Mammoth Panorama #2 $250
I began doing pinhole photography in 1996 in a variety of cameras. For the last couple years I've settled on a panoramic format. Perhaps because during this time as well, I've been hiking in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. That particular landscape, while certainly compelling on an intimate plane, is so impressive as a spectacle in the widest possible views. The camera is relatively sturdy yet light in weight. I've added compartments to store both the fresh and exposed films. This way it's more self contained, more backpackable. The resulting images are then manipulated in a variety of alternative processes, involving chemistry and exposure.
Camera used by
Claudia Wornum
Cassie Tondro
Santa Monica, California
18. Pacific Sunset $200
C-Print.
Michelle Bruzzese
Brooklyn, New York
19. Untitled $175
This image is a portrait of my cousin Margaux on Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Margaux is a subject that I have been photographing extensively for six years.
This photograph is part of a larger body of work which includes females photographed on South Florida beaches using the pinhole format.
About the process: The subject was photo-graphed in bright sunlight with an exposure of 30 seconds on Fuji NPS film. The camera used for this process was a standard size wooden pinhole. The image is printed on Fujiccolor Crystal Archive type C paper.
John A. Fobes
East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
20. Untitled #3 $325
Bi-toned silver gelatin print made with a 6 x 9 cm pinhole camera
Connie Begg
San Francisco, California
21. Untitled Self-Portrait $250
22. Landscape $200
"Untitled Self-Portrait" is a toned silver gelatin print. "Landscape" is a digital print.
Guy Glorieux
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
23. Gisele 2 $275
A lot of my recent photographic work has centered on an exploration of the inner world and the ambiguous transition between reality and dreams. It has taken the form of a series of impressionistic images, a sort of intimate photographic journal under the title "Fragments - Dreams" that should be viewed more as an interdependent whole than as a formal sequential structure. The images reach out to the viewer's unconscious through their fragility and sensuality and couldn't have been created without the magic of the pinhole camera. They are vagrant images, such as those that bloom in our mind at night,
just before the onset of sleep. "Gisele 2" is part of this series.
Most of images from this series, including the one on display, have been made with a Kodak Brownie HawkEye modified to pinhole photo-graphy. They are printed on silver chlorobromide museum-weight fiber paper, processed in litho-graphic developer, and subsequently selenium toned. This process yields highly textured images, where the grain is somewhat reminiscent of the last century's pointillist technique, and with rich ochre-brown tones also reminiscent of ancient photographs.
Gisele Comtois
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
24.Untitled $275
25. Untitled $275
From the Series Recit d'un Songe I
At the start of year 2000, as I had just finished an image series involving as the principal character a 6-inch doll which followed me everywhere, a combination of circumstances lead me to undertake research on child disappearance. The research expanded exponentially and, while I did not discover much information relating to Quebec, I did find a lot on the magnitude of the phenomenon of sexual and commercial exploitation of women and children around the world: child pornography, sexual tourism, prostitution, sex trade, promises of better life. It was in that context, as I was upset by the current reality of the suffering and the exile of those affected and the lack of public awareness and concern, that I worked on a research document and two small metaphorical books, which I titled "Recit d'un Songe" (An account of a dream). The pictures presented here come from these books.
These two images were created with a Brownie HawkEye camera converted to zoneplate photography. The prints are "Lith Prints" on silver chlorobromide museum-weight fiber paper processed in lithographic developer and selenium toned.
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