Hello all you pin-holers out there!! I need your help!

Hello all you pin-hole photographers out there!

My name is Rachel Mallon and I am a student at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Epsom, Surrey England. I am in my final year of a degree in Fashion Promotion & Illustration BA Hons and as part of my final project work I have to hold a presentation on an area of disscussion of my choice. I have just taken up the medium of pin-hole photography and I am investigating its photographic possibilities, so I thought it would therefore be appropriate to do my presentation on this photographic form.
This is where I hope you may be able to help me by giving me your opinions and reasons of interest behind why you use pin-hole, and how you feel about it re-emerging as a photographic area of interest.

What follows is a series of questions about pin-hole and if you have a moment I would greatly appreciate your views.

THE PIN_HOLE QUESTIONNAIRE

1 Name:

2 Age:

3 Occupation:

4 How did you get into pin-hole photography?

5 What camera/s do you use?

6 What type of pin-hole photographs do you like to take?

7 How long have you been using pin-hole?

8 Do you use it commercially or purely for enjoyment or both?

9 Why do you prefer this format to other more conventional photography formats?

10 Why do you feel the revival of pin-hole in the mid 1960s happened? Where you a part of this movement?

11 Do you feel the attraction with pin-hole is an artistic desire to get back to basics, and have more control over a photo?

12 Do you feel you are re-inventing creativity by going back to the first camera and using it in a new way?

13 Do you feel this movement towards pin-hole in photography may be happening because of the move into digital i.e Because we seem to be offered with digital "infinite possibilities" and a predictable, efficient result, and pin-hole offers a much more unexpected and original result?

14 What do you feel about the move into digital technology in photography that is inevitably happening? Do you feel it breaks barriers or creates them?

15 In a few words describe why you love pin-hole....

 

If you have any further advice on pin-hole information in areas not covered by my questions I would appreciate any extra view points you may be able to pass on.

THANKYOU VERY MUCH FOR TAKING PART IN MY WORK. IT IS MUCH APPRECIATED & I VALUE YOUR THOUGHTS & OPINIONS. Rachel Mallon.