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From: Rachel Mallon
To: Pinhole-Discussion@pinhole.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 2:25 PM
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] 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: Bill Erickson
2 Age: 66
3 Occupation: physician
4 How did you get into pin-hole photography? Got interested after buying a 4x5 view camera, realised this was something i could experiment with, read eric renner's book.
5 What camera/s do you use? Mostly I make my own. I try to make a distinction between ordinary phtography using a pin hole instead of a lens and "pinhole photography", those types of images and approaches that are only possible with a pinhole.
6 What type of pin-hole photographs do you like to take? Experiements with ultra wide angle, ultra closeup, ultra long exposures, placement of the film at odd angles to the aperture, using naturally occuring apertures. I did a very successful series of images using one of the holes in a soda cracker as a pinhole.
7 How long have you been using pin-hole? about 4 years.
8 Do you use it commercially or purely for enjoyment or both? Just for me.
9 Why do you prefer this format to other more conventional photography formats? There is less apparatus between me and the image, and my decisions are more central to the process rather than being at the mercy of lenses, shutters, etc.
10 Why do you feel the revival of pin-hole in the mid 1960s happened? Don't know. Where you a part of this movement? No.
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? Yes. It's a dramatically more 'personal" art.
12 Do you feel you are re-inventing creativity by going back to the first camera and using it in a new way? No.
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? I don't think so. More and more pinhole shooters are printing digitally, including me.
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? for me, it makes "darkroom" work so much easier. I never drop a negative on the floor, I can always replicate a print. I can quit at any point in time. I did color printing for several years, and it was a grueling discipline. if i had to print something complicated or critical, I got up at 4:30 in order to be fresh and not distratcted. I had to quit whenever I started making mistakes because it was only going to get worse, etc.
15 In a few words describe why you love pin-hole.... My images are a more immediate expression of my wishes. there is almost nothing between me and an image. With the cracker series, all I had was a cardboard box with a piece of photographic paper taped inside and a cracker stuck over a hole on the other side with peanut butter, and light. And yet I could make art. With pinhole, I never ask light to do anything it wouldn't do spontaneously.
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.
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