Sign up for my newsletter to be notified of the next pinhole workshop.
Join one of my pinhole photography workshops and experience the magic of creating pinhole photographs. Pinhole photography is the simplest way of creating photographs. I supply the cameras, the film, processing, and scans.
I demonstrate how pinhole cameras work and the many types of pinhole cameras available. I’ll teach you how to expose and compose a pinhole photograph. Then we load film in the pinhole cameras and we head out and take your own pinhole photographs. We should finish up around noon.
The camera, film, processing, and high resolutions scans are included. After I process and scan the film I will host an online meeting to view and discuss everyone’s photos and learn more about pinhole photography.
No photography experience is necessary for my pinhole workshops. If you can point a camera and count to ten, you can take a pinhole photo. Pinhole cameras are the simplest camera ever.
I’ll demonstrate and discuss the many varieties of pinhole cameras in the pinhole photography workshop. Cameras range from a pinhole body cap for your digital camera, 4×5 and 8×10 cameras, handmade boxes, and even beer cans. Anything that can be made light-tight can be made into a pinhole camera. I supply quality Zero Image 2000 120 film cameras for the workshop.
Other film classes
Intro to film photography
Beginner darkroom classes
Holga photography workshop
Sign up for the Around Wisco Newsletter to receive updates on future workshop dates.
Experienced professional instruction
I have been practicing film photography for 30 years now at a professional level as a national award winning photojournalist and as a fine art photographer with my pinhole and Holga cameras. I mentored for several years under Herb Nelson teaching his film classes. He is an educator with 50 years of teaching darkroom skills at the college level. Herb is now retired, but I am proud to be carrying on his legacy of bringing people into the “dark arts” as he is fond of saying.
I’m also a published author of two photography books. The first is entitled Around Wisco: Hiking the Ice Age Trail where I documented my hike of the entire 1200 mile Ice Age Trail. The second book is Ristad Farms: Grain Farming in the Red River Valley I spent and entire season on a farm in Minnesota documenting life on a modern farm.
My film photography zine Small Towns – Big Spaces was acquired by the National Art Gallery Library in Washington D.C.