A Room with a View
My cousin Steve Robinson recently used one of my pinhole photographs on a video to accompany his song ‘Room with a View’ (a follow up to his ‘Unnecessary War’ song video, which also featured my pinholes). As part of our ongoing collaboration I wanted to write something in response (I'm also painting a response, that'll take longer to create than this blog post but I'll hopefully have something to show in a few weeks). I’ll start with a few words about the photo, which was taken in 2007 with a wooden box camera. It cost me 15 pounds from a shop specializing in children's games and toys. Here's a photo of it as it was nearing the end of it's life. There was a hole (fashioned with a pin from Mum’s sewing box) for an aperture, no lens or viewfinder, and another small square of wood fastened with a screw for a shutter, which I manually slid to one side to begin the exposure, and slid back to finish it. Inside the wooden box was a square of photographic paper, whic...
