Camera Experiments:

Terrain…the Owens Valley     2020, being what it was, had me staying close to my home in the Owens Valley of California. I own many nice cameras but chose to make one out of a cardboard box, two old film holders, and a thrown away lens. The camera creates two photographs, side by side, at the same time. With this I documented the local terrain as diptychs on old photographic paper.

RopeswingAB pigment print from paper negative

OwensLake1 pigment print from paper negative

SloughtreesAB pigment print from paper negative

OwensLakeCD pigment print from paper negative

I have been making and shooting pinhole cameras for many years. Following the ‘terrain theme’ these images were made with a coffee can can camera on old photographic paper. Water and its movement has been an issue in the Owens Valley for centuries. These images were made with the camera placed at close to ground level aimed at one of the canals.

'Cyanonegative' is what I call these. Paper is coated with cyanotype chemistry then exposed in camera for about 90 minutes in full sun.

BigPine1 pigment print from cyanonegative

BigPine5 pigment print from cyanonegative