I returned from my fellowship in late December and have been working everyday on all the pinhole images I took there. About 35 long exposure pinholes have been published on this site in a folder called Civita. di Bagnoregio in the Gallery Section. Take a look. People thought I was a wee bit off placing these cameras all over the town but none were damaged or messed with at all. The fierce rains and winds damage some and all but one were useable. . I used regular altoid tins for most of cameras and used some two hole tins and one three hole and a few square tins that I love a lot.. I left about 15 altoid cans in Civita for the people there to use and we shall see how they come out. In the meantime I give fo you a pinhole that was exposing through the windows on top of the door to my studio while I was gone.. It is a three hole camera made out of a Scotch box and I exposed it for almost 90 days. Since I had been doing a lot of diptychs and triptychs on film in Italy , it seemed right that this one would turn out like those. If you would like to take a look at thr images on film from Civita, , they are at janetneuhauser.com in the blog section, two posts, one titled Images from Civita and the other titled More Images from Civita. I felt that they belonged on my personal website because they are so different the images here: on film and in color, and 10 second exposures.
On another note, I returned to ten pinholes that had been mailed in and were being held at the post office while I was gone. I think all have been scanned and posted now. One from a pinhole photographer, Walt Newman, who lives on a boat out on the Kitsap Peninsula, seems to have been lost in the mail. It was sent to me almost two weeks ago via UPS and it has never appeared. They are searching and I hope it is found because it is a three month exposure inside of a boathouse looking out. Imagine!
So the Pinhole Project keeps on keeping on. Thanks to all of you who continue to make such great images. It is, I admit, a kind of addictive thing. You do one, wait a long time and then see it and get the impetus to do another and another. Crazy I know but true. Happy Pinholing!
From Above My Studio Door