My pinhole photography book entitled “The Pinhole Thing: The Beauty of Simplicity” is now available to purchase on my Around Wisco Website.
Why Pinhole?
My pinhole cameras are nothing more than a light-tight box with a tiny hole that projects an image on film. There is no lens and no viewfinder. A pinhole camera boils photography down to its simplest components: light and composition, a huge contrast to today’s digital photography. As a photojournalist, I worked with digital photography from its very beginning. In comparison, my pinhole cameras are the most basic form of photography.
These limitations of the pinhole camera make photography new again for me. This return to simplicity has taught me a lot about photography and the way I view the world. I discovered there is a beauty to this simplicity that is often lost in a digital world. A pinhole photograph is an organic, handmade image that invites a conversation about what we gain and what we lose as technology becomes a bigger part of our lives.
I have already completed the first design for the 120-page hardcover coffee table book. Then it’s on to polishing the design, proofing, and pre-press. If the Kickstarter is successful, my goal is to have the completed book in hand for November delivery.
I’m excited at the prospect of sharing my best pinhole photography with you.
About Cameron
Cameron has been a film photographer for 30 years as a national award winning photojournalist and as a fine art photographer with his pinhole and Holga cameras.
Cameron has published two photojournalism photography books with digital photography. For Around Wisco: Hiking the Ice Age Trail he documented his hike of the entire 1200 mile Ice Age Trail. In his second book Ristad Farms: Grain Farming in the Red River Valley, Cameron spent an entire season in Minnesota documenting life on a modern farm.
Cameron’s film photography has been awarded “best in photography” many times at art festivals. His film photography zine Small Towns – Big Spaces was acquired by the National Art Gallery Library in Washington D.C.