Camera Obscura image capture at The Photographers' Gallery

This Sunday from 1 - 3 pm I will be working with the public to capture the image projected by The Photographers' Gallery's camera obscura. The event is part of The Photographers' Gallery's summer faire.

http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/camera-obscura-capturing-the-image

A busy summer

These last two months I have been busy running workshops for young people for various organisations and galleries in London. I concentrated in most of the workshops on old and simple techniques making and using pinhole cameras and making cyano type prints. Here are some of the results. It's a mix of work from  different groups and includes work by Ann, Cheryl and Rainbow from week 2 and 3 of Southwark Future University at City of London Academy in Bermondsey and pictures taken by Neil with different cameras made by himself and other people in his his Duke of Edinburgh photography group in Redbridge.

Cyano types

I am preparing for back-to-basics summer photography workshops with children and young people. We will be making pinhole cameras and cyano type prints. In my own experimentation the camera less images were the most successful.  These two were made leaving a stack of matches and a plastic water bottle respectively on a piece of sensitised paper (cyano-type) in the sun for about 15 minutes.

Out photographing with students

As I try to teach them to look for pictures I can't keep from taking some myself... on my phone, like some of them do too.
 

Photo City at The Photographers' Gallery

On Sunday I lead a family workshop at The Photographers' Gallery entitled "Photo City". We used images from Zoe Leonard's work" Analogue" currently on show at the Gallery and images from a few of my ongoing and previous projects to stick onto and into shoeboxes into which we cut windows and doors to create a shoebox, photo city. The children, sometimes with very keen help from their parents, built their own shoebox houses some of them using photographs of themselves and their family to populate their building. The workshop was very busy and great fun for all I think. Here are some of the results.