Pinhole photography

The hole that does everything

Before lenses, before optics, before 35mm cameras and everything we know as photography, there was a dark box with a small hole. Light entered, projected onto the inside and left its mark. That’s all. That is photography.

The pinhole camera isn’t a nostalgic exercise. It’s a physical demonstration of how light works. Once you’ve built it with your own hands and watched the first image appear in the developer tray, it changes the way you understand every other camera.

Key contents

• The camera obscura principle: optics without a lens
• Building a pinhole camera with simple materials
• Exposure on photographic paper: calculating exposure time
• Darkroom development: from darkness to image
• Negative and positive: the contact printing process
• Variations and creative possibilities of the technique

What’s included

• All materials for building the pinhole camera
• Photographic paper and developing chemicals
• Use of the darkroom

What to bring

• Nothing. The workshop is fully self-contained: all materials are provided.

Not included

• Additional paper prints (extra paper available at Llumàtics)