Justin Quinnell is quite famous for his pinhole photography. His most famous project could possibly be his recordings over Bristol.
In December 2007, he strapped a home-made pinhole camera made from a coke can to a telephone pole overlooking the Brunel Bridge structure. He took the camera down in June 2008 to develop and fix the light sensitive photographic paper he used, and here is the image he found.
Justin has made various different pinhole cameras out of various different objects, such as a wheely bin. Another famous project of his was to use a pinhole camera small enough to fin in his mouth to record things that happened.
Peter Donahoe
Peter Donahoe took a different approach to pinhole cameras. He has been involved with photography overall for over 40 years and started out by doing small group exhibitions in Manhattan and Brooklyn in the 70's and 80's. When he started his career, he worked in a fashion studio, and later did some police photography.
He started looking at pinhole and decided to do a project on agriculture which featured the 18 towns in Columbia. He uses pinhole cameras in this project as a private rebellion against the ever changing and developing digital world, which reflects perfectly the idea of the project, which was to photograph old silo's, barns and other old farming equipment as it's something else that is changing and being modernised. A lot of the things he photographed went on to be demolished or re-built and upgraded. Throughout this project, Donahoe used a long exposure time in order to capture the movement of the trees, water and sky against the solid, unmoving barns, silo's and equipment.
Bethany De Forest
Bethany de Forest was born in the USA but moved to Holland when she was just four. When she was 18, she moved to Amsterdam to study, and this is where she came across pinhole cameras.
She is perhaps my favourite pinhole artist of the three because she uses colour, and fantasy worlds, which I think definitely adds to it. She likes to create fairy-tale scenarios, which she makes out of a collection of house hold materials. She uses pinhole photography with this because she feels as though it gives the photo another dimension that digital photography couldn't provide. Instead of looking at a photograph of a beautiful scenery someone has create, you feel as though you are in the scenery. She uses mirrors with her scenery's to create the impression that they're more spacious than they are, but because the mirrors would reflect the camera, she also creates the scenery so the camera is a part of it.
