Justin Quinell - Workshop & Talk

Justin Quinell introduced us to the method of pinhole and his own work. Quinell constructs cameras from beer cans to wheelie bins, to taking images from inside his mouth. 

We went onto making a 'Drink can camera' and then using it with photographic paper and darkroom chemicals to create black and white paper negatives.

Things you will need:

• 2 Empty cans (Tall ones preferably) 
• An Elastic Band (used as a stabiliser)
• Photographic paper
• A pin
• Black tape
• Scissors

'its not reproduction, its story telling.'

From his mouthpiece collection.

Pinhole Project!

I have been learning all about the pinhole camera, seeing how it works, the images it can create and making my very own pinhole camera out of aluminium cans.

Here is an images of my pinhole camera and the images i managed to create, they didn't come out very well but you can just about make out the people i'v tried to capture.





After having Justin Quinnell come in and talk to us about pinhole photography i did a little research into the type of images you can achieve and here are some i found interesting...

Justin Quinell

John Fobes - Pinhole dream horse.

Images

it was obvious what my main interest was when i photographed down cromwell road, i noticed how every house had the same type of fencing/gateways. I found that every image i took of them came out differently and it was interesting to see how something the same can be photographed and made to look completely different. here are a few examples of the images i took.

The Boyle Family - Locations

The Boyle Family is a group of collaborative artists based in London. We watched a short clip about the Boyle Family and their work 'Journey to the Surface of the Earth'. This is where the idea of choosing a random location to work with came from.

A small group of us were put together and told to randomly point to three different locations on a map. As a group we visited these locations to see which one we'd most like to photograph. One of the locations chosen was Cromwell road, which after we visited we decided was the place we wanted to take images. The road itself had a lot of quirky features and was ongoing refurbishments to the area. As a group we decided to document the road individually and capture all aspects of the road.

The map we marked out location on.

One of my images in response to the project.

Me Myself & I.

 Monica Isabel Bird from surrey, Studying Photography at the university of Southampton Solent.