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Pinhole Visions
January, 2009 
Vol. 13 No. 1 
The Art of Pinhole Photography
Events This Week
Openings or Receptions

Henrieke I. Strecker
"Photographs and Works On Paper"
Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States

German born artist, Henrieke I. Strecker, brings her artistic vision to Holderness School’s Edwards Art Gallery January 8th for her first solo exhibition in the USA. While in Germany, she exhibited her photography extensively throughout Europe, and maintained an active artistic presence on the Internet. Ms. Strecker arrived in the USA in March of 2008 and has been settling into her studio and home in Center Sandwich ever since. Ms. Strecker has already become active in the arts community here, having been invited to exhibit her work in group shows at Chi Lin Gallery in Meredith, Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, and twice at Holderness School and Plymouth State University in Plymouth.


Exhibitions

Fotolateras
"Ciudades Enlatadas - Pinholed Cities"
Valencia, Spain

All the material cooked by FOTOLATERAS at MADRID, BARCELONA (SPAIN), BOLONGNA and PADOVA(ITALY) in 2008 will be shown in an exhibition to take place in the Mae space EL DORADO (Valencia) from december 12th to january 17th.


Jesseca Ferguson (in group show)
"Artists and Books"
Duxbury, Massachusetts, United States

Artists and Books showcases a diverse and talented survey of 27 New England area artists - printmakers, photographers, painters and sculptors - all making art from books and about books. The featured artists use a wide variety of materials from natural to found objects to handmade papers and fabrics to the complete and totally unexpected, incorporating traditional and contemporary bookbinding techniques with a wide variety of non traditional practices.


Chris Madigan
"Dream Memories, Paris & The South of France"
Walpole, New Hampshire, United States

Artist’s Statement: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

I love Paris, wine, travel and photography. In July 2006 I returned to France with friends and family to explore and share food, wine, places I love and many adventures. I also wanted to grow as a photographic artist and to this end I bought two pinhole cameras using them to photograph in a new and freer manner. There is a softer focus and a greater depth of field in pinhole photographs and a sense of mystery in part due to the longer exposures required.


Willie Anne Wright, Craig J. Barber, Edward Levinson
"Ever Present Past"
Chemnitz, Germany

We proudly present the first gathering of these outstanding artists. The theme for these exhibition is "Ever Present Past". The picture language is completely black & white. The artists are presenting the "special core" of their own works. We have planed the exhibition at around 90 up to 120 pictures. It's our biggest photography show since the establishment of the gallery! Our goal is to bring pinhole photography nearer to the peoples and of course give a chance for American/Japanese Photographer to exhibit their works in Germany for the first time ever!


Steve Irvine
"Series and Cycles"
Burlington, Ontario, Canada

This is a 40 year survey of Steve Irvine's work in ceramics and pinhole camera photography. Several pinhole cameras are included in the exhibition that are made of high fired stoneware clay. There are also pinhole photograph prints.


Upcoming Workshops

António Campos Leal
"The Magic Of Light/A Magia Da Luz"
Lisboa, Portugal

Iniciativa aberta para a divulgação da Fotografia Estenopeica. Inscrição via mail para:



Calls For Entries

"Pinhole erotics"
Dordrecht, Netherlands

We show Fine art nudes and erotic photography also erotic paintings .


"3rd Polish Festival of Pinhole Photography OFFO 2009"
Katowicka 17/25, Poland

UPDATE: Foreign authors can participate in the 3rd Polish Festival of Pinhole Photography OFFO 2009 as guests. In 2011 this Festival will probably become an international event. Invitations will be sent to authors, who can apply via e-mail (sent to offo@wp.pl) containing some photos and a short dossier, as well as the information about their exposition (number and size of the photographs regulated by the statute). The deadline for sending an application is March 31, 2009. Works from foreign authors will be sent back if the authors cover the costs of sending. In other case the photographs will remain in the Festival's archive.


   "Who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the universe? O mighty process! What talent can avail to penetrate a nature such as these? What tonque will it be that can unfold so great a wonder? Verily, none! This it is that guides the human discource to the considering of divine things. Here the figures, here the colors, here all the images of every part of the universe are contracted to a point. O what a point is so marvelous!"

- Leonardo da Vinci

Art Quote of the Day

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

Marie Curie

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News & Announcements

Old Camera Beats Digital Rivals

Bangladeshi photographer Safder Ali takes passport-sized photos for a living with an antique box camera. He's been running his business by the side of a busy street in the centre of Dhaka since 1952. (Words and pics: Mark Dummett)

Early Colour Pinhole

A colour pinhole photo I took in 1971 has just been published in a new coffee table book titled 'Shrouds of the Night'. It's a comprehensive history of Astronomy and Photography and is available on Amazon. The authors are David Block and Kenneth Freeman and published by Springer. The still life photo was taken using cibachrome paper with a 2 hour exposure and research shows this could be one of the first known colour pinhole photos.

Pinhole Visions for 2009

Happy new year to visitors and subscribers to the Pinhole News. This message is boringly technical, but I wanted to point out a couple of recent changes to the web site. The "Pinhole News" eNewsletter has a slightly new face. But more importantly, it now supports both HTML and plain text in email programs. If your email reader supports HTML, you will see the visually enhanced version of the eNewsletter. But if your email reader supports plain text only, you will see a plain text version. You don't need to do anything, as this should be handled automatically by your email reader. Free subscriptions to the Pinhole News are available here:

Free Zoneplate Production Kit

Recently, I opened Zoneplate Production Kit to the public on following my website. Yo may download the PDF files of the images for focal length 50 and 80mm zoneplate.


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