This show features 27 of my pinhole images from several different series. Some images are printed using alternative printing processes including cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, Platinum and Palladium.

The opening reception was on September 15, 2013, and the show runs through October 19, 2013.

Three images from my "Ex Libris" series have been juried in to this first ever Alumni show at Georgia State University.

I will be giving a presentation on pinhole photography at the August meeting (August 8, at 7pm)  of Women In Focus, an Atlanta-based group of women photographers. I will be showing examples of my work as well as several of the cameras I use, including some that I made.

Santa Fe (June 13,  2012)—Mysterious, artistic, and as low-tech as an oatmeal box, pinhole  photography has captivated everyone from schoolchildren to professional   photographers for more than a century. The Pinhole Resource Archives, the   world’s largest collection of images, books and cameras, just joined New Mexico’s largest archive of photography, the Palace of the Governors Photo   Archives at the New Mexico History Museum.

The  collection was a  donation from Pinhole Resource Inc., which is based in New  Mexico and led by  Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer.

 “In looking at other possible repositories for the Pinhole Resource Collection, we felt the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives had a tremendous web presence, which would make the collection accessible to people worldwide,” Renner and Spencer said in a prepared statement. “In addition, with the staff’s enthusiasm and interest in pinhole images we felt the collection would have a good home here in New Mexico."

The Photo Archives  has already digitized hundreds of the images, which can be searched here (http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm4/indexpg.php ); click on “Browse  Pinhole Resource Collection” or type the word “Pinhole” into the
search box. 

“The Photo Archives  and the state of New Mexico is fortunate to be the repository for this  world-class collection of pinhole photography. There is no other collection like  it and is a tremendous addition to the resources made available to the public  through the Photo Archives,” said archivist Daniel Kosharek. 

Even in this digital  age, pinhole photography remains an intriguing medium. Its continued popularity  has been celebrated every April since 2001 with Worldwide Pinhole Photography  Day. The 2010 event drew 3,387 images from 67 countries.

An exhibition of  images from this unparalleled collection of pinhole photographs, representing  images from New Mexico and around the world, is scheduled for April 2014 Poetics of Light willcoincide with Worldwide Pinhole  Photography  Day.

In the 5th  century BC, a Chinese philosopher noted the inverted image  produced through a  pinhole—an effect that led to development of the camera
obscura and serves as  the fundamental quality of pinhole photography.  Renaissance artists Leonardo da  Vinci, Filippo Brunelleschi, and Leon Battista
Alberti advanced the knowledge of  pinhole camera obscura imagery, creating a basis and understand of one-point  perspective. In 1850, Sir David Brewster, a Scottish scientist, took the first  photograph with a pinhole camera.  By the mid-1980s, a variety of pinhole  cameras could be purchased by anyone who wanted to create images without  creating the camera.

In its most simple  description, a pinhole camera is a lens-less camera with a
small aperture. The  interior of the “camera” (which can be, yes, an oatmeal
box…or a traffic cone…or  the human mouth…) contains a piece of film that  records the projected image over  periods of time that can range from a second to a year. 

Pinhole Resource  Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to pinhole photography across the  globe, was formed in New Mexico in 1984 by Eric Renner. He began working in pinhole photography in 1968, while teaching   three-dimensional design for the State University of New York at Alfred. Images from his 6 pinhole panoramic camera were shown in the first exhibition of the Visual Studies Workshop Gallery in Rochester, New York. Consequently, one of Renner’s images was included in the Time-Life Series The Art of Photography, 1971. Through exhibitions and workshops, he met pinhole artists  throughout the world and worried that their work might become as lost as the  thousands of images taken during the Pictorial Movement from the late 1880s to  early 1900s. 

After forming the nonprofit, he created the Pinhole Journal, and in 1989 was   joined by Nancy Spencer, co-director of Pinhole Resource and co-editor of the journal, which ceased publication in 2006. Their collections included images  from Europe, the Mideast, Asia and the Americas, books about pinhole   photography, and dozens of pinhole cameras, one of which dates back to the  1880s. 

The Palace of the Governors Photo Archives contains more than 800,000 prints, cased photographs, glass plate negatives, stereographs, photo postcards, lantern slides and more. Almost 20,000 images can be keyword searched on its website. The materials date from approximately 1850 to the present and cover the history and people of New Mexico from some of the most important 19th- and 20th-century photographers of the West—Adolph Bandelier, George C. Bennett, John Candelario, W.H. Cobb, Edward S. Curtis, Charles Lindbergh, Jesse Nusbaum, T. Harmon Parkhurst, Ben Wittick, and many others.

The Archives actively seeks material from contemporary photographers as well in order to document the past 50 years of visual history in New Mexico. Recent acquisitions include works by Jack Parsons, Herbert A. Lotz, Tony O’Brien, Steve  Fitch, David Michael Kennedy, John Willis, Ann Bromberg, and Cary Herz. 

Image shown above: "The Dark Way", from the Ritual Series by Jan Kapoor; series included in the Pinhole Resource Archives. 4x5 pinhole image, platinum/palladium print.

"Fallen Tree, Boneyard Beach"
Ossabaw Island
Pinhole photograph by Jan Kapoor

"Dunes, Bradley Beach"
Ossabaw Island
Pinhole photograph by Jan Kapoor

Both photographs are part of the "Picturing Georgia" installation at the new International Terminal at the Maynard H. Jackson Airport

PRESS RELEASE: May 16, 2012 

Media Contact: Michael David Murphy
(404)634-8664 

Michael@ACPinfo.org 

Atlanta Celebrates Photography and the City of Atlanta Department of Aviation  Art Program are pleased to announce a special temporary exhibition of fine  art photography showcasing Georgia’s natural landscape. The exhibition, featuring the work of 21 photographers has been installed in the new Maynard H. Jackson International Terminal, which opened May 16th. The exhibition graces the corridors leading arriving passengers to the Immigrations Processing area, and will be exhibited for at least one year. 

Georgia boasts one of the most diverse ecosystems in the country, with five
distinct natural regions. To capture the beauty and diversity of these regions, ACP and the Airport Art Program have assembled a collection of 44  photographs that provide a view of our State through the eyes of a select
group of artists: 

Jerry Atnip, Hazel Berger, Reis Birdwhistell, Lucinda Bunnen, Paul Conlan, Richard Ediger, David Foster, Karekin Goekjian, Paul Hagedorn, Wanda Hopkins, Jan Kapoor, Diane Kirkland, Kathryn Kolb, Judy Lampert, Mark Malloy, Kevin Nickell, Donna Rosser, Anderson Scott, Marilyn Suriani, Meryl Truett and Phil Winter 

This installation is the result of a partnership between the City of Atlanta  Department of Aviation Art Program and Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP). 

The exhibition was curated by Corinne Adams, an Atlanta based photographer
and co-founder of Atlanta Celebrates Photography and Amy Miller, Executive
Director of Atlanta Celebrates Photography; in association with the Airport
Art Program. 

The Airport Art Program’s mission is to enrich the airport environment with
beautiful and thought-provoking artwork. 

ACP promotes the art form of photography and organizes the annual citywide
“Atlanta Celebrates Photography” Festival in the month of October – the
largest community-oriented photography festival in the United States. 

www.ACPinfo.org
http://www.atlanta-airport.com/passenger/art%20program/frmPassengerInformation_ArtProgram.aspx 

"Family Tree"
This is my entry in Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, 2012. WPPD always occurs on the last Sunday in April. Pinhole photographers all over the world make pinhole images on that day, choose one, and post it on the WPPD website: http://www.pinholeday.org/.
To see the images, click on "Gallery." From there, you can select any year to see the images from that year, all the way back to 2001.

Recently I had my Olympus Pen E-PL1 converted to photograph in infrared.

These are some of my first infrared images.