The Pinhole Project

Eric Riedel and Barry Christensen collaboration ;multi hole camera

“Animal, Vegetable, Gnome” A 4 hole Collaboration with Barry Christensen

Four hole collaboration

Four hole pinhole camera

Four Hole Camera

This was a two camera placed on the entrance to the garden next to where I stayed in Civita. The camera was very wide angle and made the garden look much bigger than it was. the edge of town is at the edge of the garden, straight down from there.

A new Camera, so large it was recycled in Civita. Heavy and taped inside an upstairs window looking south, it moved!! The wind blew, the windows shook. This image happened.

A long time sucker for symmetry, I give you this, a diptych of the arch from the inside. Camera was attached to a downspout out of the rain and could have been left for six months to a year.

Civita di Bagnoregio is a very old Etruscan hilltop town with a steep bridge that connects it to the “mainland”. I tried to convey how steep it was to walk up to Civita because everyone who visited had to walk up the bridge, no cars were allowed in the town. This camera, an old film container, was exposed for 30 days on the last turn before the entrance Arch. It slipped during exposure, or perhaps it was bumped. It was taped onto a railing.

This camera, a typical pinhole tin from the Project, was placed on a door next to the Offerte box, which was the place to put your offering when you visited the altar inside the cave. The camera remained out of the rain, undisturbed for one month.

The camera was a square tin, placed inside of the window of my bedroom. So much history and time shown in this image, the cypress tree might be the youngest part of the image (Minus the electrical lines of course).

I placed three cameras in a beautiful garden on the property of the Civita Institute that is tended by resident and major donor Tony Costa Heywood. He was kind enough to give me access. It was a four sided garden and three sides provided great spots to hang cameras. This one looking Northeast.

I placed three cameras in a beautiful garden on the property of the Civita Institute that is tended by resident and major donor Tony Costa Heywood. He was kind enough to give me access. It was a four sided garden and three sides provided great spots to hang cameras. This one looking East.

I placed three cameras in a beautiful garden on the property of the Civita Institute that is tended by resident and major donor Tony Costa Heywood. He was kind enough to give me access. It was a four sided garden and three sides provided great spots to hang cameras. This one looking West.

Toward the Northeast, this camera did not catch any sun trails. The hills across the Calanchi Valley are distant; the valley is where the sea used to be thousands of years ago.

The highest point one can easily get to and look down on the bridge connecting Civita to Bagnoregio. A popular tourist spot, I did not expect the camera to last but it did. I am not sure where the refections came from.

One of many stone houses along the way.

The camera was taped to the railing at the Belvedere (viewpoint) that looks across the Calanchi Valley to Civita. The wind blew hard and the camera spun around and around for a few days at least. Civita sits in the clouds!

Through the arch and into the old Prison yard. I placed the camera there out of the rain on a downspout. Again exposure could have been much longer.

Another dark narrow passage that needed more than a month of exposure.

Placed a camera behind this tree where it could stay dry. And it did. Looking east into the old Prison Yard. I kept going in and closing the electrical box next to the camera that would blow open in the wind.

I hung this on a fence which was made of wire. I knew that it would blow in the breeze and be rained on but I also knew that it would get a great sun trai and it did.

I loved this spot and put several cameras there. It was straight down to the chestnut grove from above and was a great place to stand and gaze. As the Italians say: ”dolce far niente.” The sweetness of doing nothing.

I only put two cameras out on the bridge. I was worried about them blowing off in the wind (like my hat did the second day I was in Civita). I was also worried about the hundreds of tourists who gamely trudged up the bridge each day. This was the lower of the two and faced north and east. Both cameras survived and were not tampered with at all.

West of the main piazza, there is a walkway that looks west with a wide spot for gatherings, meet-ups, conversations. The camera was wrapped around a railing and moved a lot. Movement is what this photograph is all about: a real depiction of the spot.

Another favorite spot, behind the church (San Donato) piazza. I placed several cameras here on railings, window gratings and downspouts.

I taped this camera to a tree outside the apartment; it faced west across the street. The tree moved a lot in the wind and the camera was soaking wet.

The church from across the piazza with the clock tower.

The church from the side with sun trail. This camera was taped to a garbage bin holder and keep slipping and facing the ground. I had no hopes for his image but it is a fine depiction of the church.

One of many arches in Civita di Bagnoregio. I placed several cameras under arches because they were generally dry.

I am not sure where this camera was placed. It was obvious to me at the time, and I did not write it down. If anyone recognizes this part of Civita, please tell me.

This image and the one below were placed on a railing overlooking the valley; the sun trail is strong. Cameras were placed pretty close together.

This image and the one above were placed on a railing overlooking the valley; the sun trail is strong. Cameras were placed pretty close together.

This camera was placed on a railing on the walkway to the northeast of the main piazza of the town.

Giovanni is a fellow at the Institute. He is a wonderful writer and kindly took this camera and placed on the rear window of his car for two weeks. He drove down south of Rome and then back to Civita and parked the car under the bridge. If you look closely you can see the bridge and the incredible sun trails as well.

This camera was placed by Cinzia Rocchi, a consultant for the Institute and all around great person who is connected through the centuries to Civita and who so kindly placed this camera in her yard outside of Bagnoregio.

A long exposure pinhole of her loft at the Sunny Arms.

“Animal, Vegetable, Gnome” A 4 hole Collaboration with Barry Christensen

A four hole collaboration

A 4 hole pinhole collaboration.

Four hole collaboration with Barry Christensen

Four hole collaboration with Barry Christensen

Four hole collaboration with Barry Christensen

Four hole collaboration with Barry Christensen

four Hole Collaboration with Barry Christensen

fFour Hole Collaboration with Barry Christensen

Four Hole Camera

Two hole camera

“Ghost of Her Garden Helper”

4 x 5 inch leonardo

I wondered how I could photograph up close with the camera. I put a 8x magnifying loupe on the front of a pinhole camera. It worked I made a whole series with this idea. You can go to my website and see the portfolio called Loupesholes (thanks Tom Tampa for the title).

"Out My Bedroom Window" 3 months exposure

Home: 2019

one year exposure from the power line at Bruce’s

On Bruce’s Lewis County property

Made while teaching grade school students pinhole photograph over 30 years ago on a isolated San Juan Island.

Back of Van from Here to Southern Utah and back

In the Woods for several months (It is dark in there!)

Road trip to southern Utah. Camera was on the passenger side of the van the entire trip

One month exposure looking at the parking lot where i live.

A new three hole camera made from a potato chip can. Exposed for twenty five days as an experiment to see if it would work. It did! From the Home Series. The next three images were exposed from the same spot with different cameras.

An meat can made into a pinhole camera by the pinhole camera maker, Bruce Thomson. It’s a fine camera and exposed for just over three weeks with the screen door and wavy windows in the way of the image. This image and the one before and the two after are all exposed in the same spot with different cameras.

From the home series

A new pinhole exposed for over a month in the narrow, small grooved windows in the front door as well as the screen door. From the Home Series.

The two images before this one and the one after are exposed in the same spot, just different cameras.

A two hole camera exposed out my front door through the screen and the wavy windows. The three images before this one and including this one are exposed from the same spot, just different cameras.

A three hole camera from my front door. From the Home Series.

An image made in an Altoid tin from the storefront window; 30 day exposure

Image made in a 2 hole camera from the Shunpike Storefront Window.

Image made in a large 2 hole camera made from a Saltine Tin. Camera moved during exposure and fell down once. 30 day exposure.

Image made in the Shunpike Storefront Window in a large square tin, 30 day exposure

An array of nine small round cameras exposed for 30 days from the Shunpike Storefront Window in South Lake Union, Seattle, WA.

Exposure began when I left for Italy in November. I took this pinhole down early in February before the Pandemic started. From my Studio Windows. A part of the Home Series

Two hole pinhole exposed during the Pandemic, March 16-April 26, 2020, Image uploaded to the World Wide Pinhole Day website on April 26th. From the Home Series.

From the Home Series

I wore a small pinhole camera around my neck for one month, ending on March 16 2020, the official lockdown in Seattle for the Covid 19 virus. The windows in my place are on the bottom of this image. How did they get there?

I don’t normally make photographs of my cameras. This is different. #Wearable

The big windows in my place. Two hole camera. From the Home Series

Three hole pinhole; ninety day exposure; from the window sill looking outside. From the Home Series.

Two hole Pinhole from a lunchbox camera; 90 day exposure. From the Home Series

A three week exposure from the car which went from Seattle to South Dakota and back.

Getaways, 2 day exposure

Getaways on a camping trip to the Pacific Ocean: 4 day exposure

Getaways: Idaho . 5 days in July 2018

Getaways: Six day exposure from the back window of my car including four days from the parking lot at Doe Bay on Orcas Island, WA.

Getaways: Doe Bay . February 2018

Getaways made at Doe Bay: 4 day exposure from the back of a car . February 2019

Getaways: 12 day exppsure road trip to the Grand Tetons and back. September 2018

Getaways: Seiku . Summer 2018

Getaway to Lewis county and back. 2022

Getaways: 6 weeks from car. 3 weeks in parking lot of home. Spring 2018

Fourteen Day Exposure from Back of Car Part of the Getaways Series

Getaways: 8 Day Exposure on Road trip to Northern California, April 2019

Getaways: Oregon 2017

Getaways: Oregon

Getaways: Top of the World . Fall 2018

Getaways: Lopez Island . Fall 2018

Getaways: Top of the World 2017

Home; Two Hole

Four day exposure from the window of my cabin at Doe Bay, Orcas Island, WA.

From inside the cab, four day exposure for Getaways; Road trip to the ocean.

Experimental two hole camera. From the images done at the Shunpike Window.

Four day exposure from my cabin at Doe Bay on Orcas Island, WA

Duwamish River from West Marginal Way

Made for Super 8 film festival movie Retrieval . April 2019

Made for Super 8 Film Festival movie, Retrieval . April 2019

Sunny Arms Seattle

Duwamish River from South Park

Doe Bay: February 2019

Doe Bay 2018

Philadelphia: March 2018

Home: Patio behind screen doors . 2019

Getaway to Willapa Bay (Inside my car)

Getaways

Solarcan Three week exposure

Home

Home: my window sill

Home: 3 hole camera of windows

Home

Diptych from two three hole exposures on one window sil: from both directions

Home: from my front windows/3 hold camera

Getaways: Three Hole Camera

3 hole camera part of the Home Series

Home

Getaways: Two Images both two hole cameras pointing at each other.

Three hole camera made from a Dewar’s Scotch tin.

Just found this (early 2020) and know it is at least ten years old. From my windows at the sunny arms…..

Home: from the front windows/3 hole camera

Three hole camera: first try

Home: Patio

Home

Home: Patio

Home; Patio

Home: Patio

Home: Patio

Home: Patio

Home: Patio

Home: Patio

Home: Windows in apartment

Home: Still life on window sill.

Home: six week view of my building

Home: Looking north

Home: 90 day exposure to the northwest

Home: Main Foyer of building

Home: 90 day exposure due west

California

Salt Point State Park, California

Home: Patio

Brooklyn,NY

Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn, NY

Six Month Film can exposure outside the Sunny Arms.

Six month exposure, Top of the World, Olympic National Forest, Washington

Two year Exposure near Honeydew, CA under a bridge.

Whidbey Island, WA Three month exposure

Film can exposure

Under the bridge, Usal Beach, CA

Interior exposure for nine months of a pinhole photography show.

New Orleans

Baltimore

Portland, Oregon

Red Hook, Brooklyn

Doe Bay, Orcas Island, February 2015

Red Hook, Brooklyn

Red Hook Brooklyn

A two hole saltine cracker can.

This is the view from my apartment, taken with a cigar book I got in South Dakota this past summer. It had two holes that appeared to overlap.

An old potato chip can made into a three hole camera set in the crook of a poplar tree. Made in the meadow, it did not capture much of it,

A two hole lunchbox camera. It was exposed to a lot of rain and I do not where the squiggles came from. The darker area at the bottom is the land in front of the Bay.

An altoid type camera that hung in between the two visual art studios at Willapa Bay AiR. One was used by David French a painter who worked there a lot.

An altoid type camera that hung on a cross on the bay for one month.

An altoid type camera that hung about four feet away from the church. Very wide angle these altoid tins. One month exposure.

in Oysterville, there was a very old church. This is a shot made with an altoid type tin from the window sill inside the church. It really needed a much longer exposure.

On a fence this altoid type camera sat through the rain for a month. The school looks much smaller than I imagined it would.

Made with my grandmother’s lard can, it is the first photograph taken with this camera. The camera sat inside the apartment, for a month.

An altoid type tin that was exposed for 30 days. It fell down in a wind storm and I put it back up mostly in the same place. I am not sure what the “squiggles’ are on the grass in front of the camera.

Microsoft campus in Redmond

Skagit December 27

Skagit December 27

Pike and Sixth, Looking West

Pike and Sixth, Looking South

A three hole camera inside of a car on a road trip

From the inside of a car on a road trip

Near White Salmon, WA

Near White Salmon, WA

Skagit December 27

Skagit December 27

two hole camera/5 month exposure

An experimental camera, about a three month exposure.

The Living Room

The Bedroom

The Kitchen

The Kitchen

Out the Back Door

Out the Front Door

Back Porch (Martini Shaker)

Window Ledge

Window Ledge

Round Panoramic Camera

Backyard

One hour exposure

Portland/1

Portland/2

Portland/3

Portland/4

Podtland/5

Portland/6

Porltand/7

Portland/8

Portland/9

Portland/10

Portland/11

From inside the King Street Station clocktower, Seattle

From Inside the King Street Station Clocktower, Seattle

Pioneer Square Alley, Seattle

Pioneer Square Alley

Pioneer Square Alley, Seattle

Montello, Nevada

Montello, Nevada

Montello, Nevada

Montello, Nevada

Montello, Nevada

Montello Nevada

Montello, Nevada

Montello, Nevada

From Studio Building to Street; 2 1/2 month exposure

The Second Highest Point

from House to Woods, 2 1/2 month exposure

The Big Maple

December-April exposure

December-May exposure

December-April Exposure

Meghan’s office at BECU; two year exposure

Meghan’s office at BECU; Two year exposure