There have been a lot of photographers attempt the art of pinhole photography. I spent an entire semester in an independent studies photography class focused on pinhole photos during college. It is a very challenging and very rewarding art form.
It’s been years and years since I pulled out any of my homemade pinhole cameras (I built them from old scraps of wood, tin cans, or any other light tight object I could find). I was reading the Sunday edition (yes, it’s Monday already… I fell a day behind in the newspaper, because I was really busy yesterday) of the Dallas Morning News and noticed a fun story in the Guide Sunday section.
The story was about one of the DMN photogs – G.J. McCarthy – titled “In Trash, Beauty”. In the ten years I’ve been contracted to shoot for them, I’ve seen a lot of the photographers up there try some pretty fun and creative photo essays. I think this is the first pinhole essay, though.
There is a video link on their website, if you missed the printed story. It shows a few pinhole pictures and has an interview: