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Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer, creators of the Pinhole Resource collection, have been honored with a Governor’s Art award!

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The exhibition catalogue for our pinhole photography exhibit was mentioned by ARTnews Magazine as one of the best photo books of the summer!

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ALBUQUERQUE (KASA) - New Mexico stands out as refreshingly different, a spirited blend of arts, history, and lifeways found in few other places. This week Chad explored the poetics of the light pinhole photography exhibit at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe.  Join Chad for the Culturepass Challenge as he is exploring all…

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the LA Times covers our pinhole photography exhibit!

Your typical phone camera comes with so many low-light sensors, image stabilizers and apps for artful filters that sharply focused, high-resolution pictures pile up faster than you can overshare on Facebook. Heck, even cats can take pretty good selfies. (Yes, there is Tumblr for that.)

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Poetics of Light exhibition at the New Mexico History Museum

At last, the pinhole photography exhibit is open to the public! The exhibit turned out great and is well worth seeing if you're into alternative photographic process.

We've been getting some fairly good coverage, including from the Albuquerque Journal, the local arts mag Pasatiempo, and even from the New Yorker blog and the LA Times!

Here are some links:

Albuquerque Journal - "The world through a pinhole"

Pasatiempo - "Poetics of Light explores pinhole photography"

New Yorker blog - "The view from a pinhole"

LA Times - "Poetics of Light: Gauzy dreams through a pinhole"

El Palacio - Poetics of Light

Alibi - "Light looking back"

KASA Albuquerque - "Pinhole photography with culturepass"

ARTnews - "Rainbow Sunsets and Breezy Glamour: 9 Seductive New Photo Books"

Other mentions:

http://geraldstiebel.blogspot.com/2014/05/poetics-of-light-contemporary-pinhole.html

http://photographmag.com/newsandreviews/view/412

http://www.santafehometownnews.com/content/new-mexico-museum-history-make-pinhole-camera-make-poem-make-date

http://www.eurekaspringsindependent.com/single_story.asp?StoryID=6341

http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2014/s14060025.htm

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Here's a short piece about Ben Conrad's pinhole suit, which will be on display during our upcoming exhibition on pinhole photography.

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"Ballspiel von Fliehenclem", Germany

Andree Korpys and Markus Loffler

Date: 1990

Negative Number HP.2012.15.332

From the Pinhole Resource Collection

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Title: “My Grandmother dead in her coffin”, Sweden

Photographer: Joakim Eneroth

Date: 2004

Negative Number HP.2012.15.378

From the Pinhole Resource Collection

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"Skin and Bones" from 'on deaf ears' series

Photographer: Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer

Date: 2001 - 2011

POG Negative Number HP.2012.15.925

From the Pinhole Resource Collection

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"Woman as Witch" from 'on deaf ears' series

Photographer: Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer

Date: 2001 - 2011

Negative Number HP.2012.15.896

From the Pinhole Resource Collection

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"Rare Birds" from 'on deaf ears' series

Photographer: Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer

Date: 2001 - 2011

POG Negative Number HP.2012.15.888

From the Pinhole Resource Collection

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It was only recently that I decided it was time for me to take up pin-holing. After thirty years amusing myself with lens photography while working and travelling in my day job as a professional engineer, I viewed photography as a pastime in my retirement with somewhat limited enthusiasm.

I design and make my own cameras, or modify vintage folders. This satisfies the engineering left in me and offers some certainty that the tools will work before I commit to the creative part of the process. 

Delio Ansovini

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Oak in the Infrared Shade

Photo By: Delio Ansovini

HP.2012.15.1328

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I particularly liked to solarize the Litho in the darkroom. The huge surface area of the negatives provides a lot of information to explore. I develop my own color negatives so I can tweak the process at any point. I use black and white film and print chemistry on color films and vary the temperatures and timing on everything. Expired films seem to work best for me, they carry their own surprising quirks and I feel less precious about the investment, consequently I'm even more inclined to break the rules and take risks.

- Claudia Wornum

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  Photo Info: Untitled Photo By: Claudia Wornum HP.2012.15.1130

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Pinhole photography (or the camera obscura) is a heavily intuitive process concerned more with creating a mood than delivering an image wrapped in the trappings of reality. Simple in theory, the process, predating modern photography, is quite tricky. What isn’t left to luck is owed to plenty of practice, precision, and experimentation.

-Darius Kuzmickas

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  Photo Info: Pinhole 109, Water Photo By: Darius Kuzmickas HP.2012.15.1208