The Pinhole Project mission is to document the people, art and events at Burning Man each year, with teaching others to explore their creativity through this hundred year old technique of pinhole photography. With pinhole photography, the “lens” is merely a pinhole, created from a thin sheet of aluminum, and affixed to the camera body. The Pinhole Project exposes 30 x 40 inch sheets of light sensitive gelatin silver paper. The project works with 12 pinhole cameras, created out of 50-gallon cardboard barrels. This size is uniquely suited for capturing the incredible scale and immense diversity of art and culture at Black Rock City. Under the red safelights of the darkroom, photosensitive paper is inserted into the camera body. Exposures range from 40 to 300 seconds, where concentrated beams of sunlight are funneled through the pinhole and into the camera, creating a negative image of the recorded subject. The project maintains a desert darkroom in a shipping container, where they gather to processes, develop and fix about one hundred photographs each Burning Man.
Additional Artworks
From John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art
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Verena Dengler
Performance Proletarians (Frame on wheels), 2014
Embroidery
62 x 16 in
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Pinhole Project
Cat and Sina at the Temple, 2014
Gelatin Silver Paper
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Pinhole Project
Celestial Mechanica, 2014
Photograph
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Pinhole Project
RSJ at Embrace, 2014
Photograph
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Pinhole Project
Jacob's Wave, 2014
Photograph
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Nicolas Shake
In the Details, 2014
Oil
24 x 30 in
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Victor Landweber
Roy Lichtenstein and Philip Glass in Lichtenstein's studio, 1991, 2014
Photograph
16 x 12 in
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Abigail Goldman
Untitled, 2013
Topiary
24 x 4 in
