In 2012 I took yet another darkroom class, this time out teacher wanted us to explore pinhole photography and at the time I was also very interested in packaging structures and origami so I set out to build my own pinhole cameras from photographic paper and incorporate structual packaging and origami patterns into the pinhole camera itself. After a lot of mistakes and wasted material I succeeded in getting two good pictures with photograhpic pinhole boxes wrapped in aluminium foil (to block light from going through the paper). But the project was a failure and in the end I had to resort to using boxes made of cardboard and wood, with photographic paper plastered on the inside, paper that I then had to fold to boxes.
The excerpt below is from the original artist statement:
The excerpt below is from the original artist statement:
"The only two places in nature where you find sharp straight edges are in crystals and Basalt columns as for example The Giant’s Causeway on Ireland. Most of the sharp edges we see around us are man-made structures.
My r^2 -> r^3 project started as new way (at least for me) of doing pinhole cameras.
As I am very interested in geometry I decided that I would fold my own pinhole cameras, I tried a couple of shapes before I settled on cubes.
The reason for cubes was because it is a lot easier to calculate where the light will hit and how long it will take for an image to develop, than for let say a pentagonal pyramid.
Although cubes are easier to calculate, they proposed a challenge, because I was using direct positive paper, which I sadly did not quite figure out, although some of the boxes came out really neat.
In the end I had to resort to using huge cubes made from cardboard with photo-paper inside, that I then afterwards folded in to the different shapes."
My r^2 -> r^3 project started as new way (at least for me) of doing pinhole cameras.
As I am very interested in geometry I decided that I would fold my own pinhole cameras, I tried a couple of shapes before I settled on cubes.
The reason for cubes was because it is a lot easier to calculate where the light will hit and how long it will take for an image to develop, than for let say a pentagonal pyramid.
Although cubes are easier to calculate, they proposed a challenge, because I was using direct positive paper, which I sadly did not quite figure out, although some of the boxes came out really neat.
In the end I had to resort to using huge cubes made from cardboard with photo-paper inside, that I then afterwards folded in to the different shapes."
