Schlagwort: pinhole photography

Kunstverein Neukölln And 4 Green Dots For #93!

A wonderful little charity event for the Kunstverein Neukölln – a self-managed gallery where I have already been part of a few film events. Lots of artist friends were able to exhibit one work and half of the proceeds go to the Kunstverein.

I have a pinhole camera picture hanging there, ‘Tempelhofer Feld: Skater’, developed in Spreegurkenwasser (spicy cucumber water), vitamin C and washing soda. 120 €.

And you know what? Four green dots! Four sold (each one is hand-developed and unique, they always turn out slightly different …). The exhibition runs until mid-January, so maybe I’ll sell some more, hooorray!

Curry and Cucumber Pinholes

Curry – the golden Indian mixture of turmeric, pepper, coriander, cumin, garlic, buckwheat clover, mace, black pepper, chilli, allspice and cardamom.

Each of these spices contains phenols, some more (for example, chilli and turmeric – they act as an antioxidant against free radicals, antiinflammatory and anticancerous), some less (cardamom). Together they celebrate a golden, hot, warming party!

Combined with soda and vitamin C they develop photo paper, giving nice soft shades of gray, and the coloring power of turmeric tones it yellowish or for some strange reason rather a little greenish!!

And now: Cucumber!

Cucumbering – SD 480p

Yesterday – see the video above – I mixed some cucumber pickles water developer! I did it before and I know it works fine … now again because I’m actually producing a handful of photo prints for a little exhibition (me amongst many other artists, it’s a kind of benefits event for a gallery here in Berlin-Neukölln).

And there will be a winter market in December at my beloved spot “Silent Green” where I’ll have a stand exhibiting some pieces, mostly … you guess it … photos that I developed in various magical soups!

A Two Weeks Solari

Now this is one of the weirdest photos ever!
A 2 weeks solargraphy. Solargraphy?
Solargraphy is a technique in which a fixed pinhole camera is used to expose photographic paper for an extremely long amount of time (several weeks or months or even a year). It shows the path of the Sun across the sky. The paper doesn’t need to be developed – it would become totally black – the negative images appears on the paper by itself because the altered chemical grains in the emulsion are going crazy with this long exposure time and start to „burn“ the paper!
I had placed it in my English residency in May. You don’t really see any sun beams but a quite far away abandoned nuclear plant 😉
(contrast and inversed: Photoshop)

Prospect Cottage – Pinhole Photos

I made a bunch of pinhole photos with my new little favourite camera: the peppermint camera!
Put a piece of photo paper inside which I later developed in Caffenol. Result: a negative, took a phone photo of it and digitally flipped it over to a positive. I made about 20. Maybe a book?