WHY PINHOLE? Because this photography is about:
- Magic - Whatever 'camera obscura' you use - whatever the level of your technical ability - the result is magical! The world seen through the Pinhole is a silent, timeless, enchanted world.
- Time - A suspended and rarefied atmosphere reigns over the lens-less image and is the result of a very special relationship with time. Forget the quick snapshot - it may take seconds or minutes before a pinhole image is fully exposed. With traditional photography (and especially with digital photography) one can snap and run. The Pinhole Photographer carefully chooses and considers the subject; no indiscriminate snapping. Pinhole is the photography of patience, of meditation.
- Ecology of the Mind - Pinhole photographers wait for the little box to do its job and in the meantime they have time to observe, and to think. An unexpected light intrusion, a diffraction, a blur are accidents that pinhole photographers accept, consider, and appreciate as the contribution of chance to the artistic creation. These are happy accidents - ecology of the image becomes ecology of the mind.