In their second exhibition, the Pinhole Artist Collective (PAC) displays a series of pinhole film canister cameras and scans of solargraphs. The members of PAC dispersed these little black cameras throughout the city and country. They sat quietly, exposing for weeks or months. The exhibition features the colourful traces of the sun’s path across this space and time. The exhibition includes solarcams and solargraphs and references the location of the cameras.
Pinhole photography is about capturing light in a vessel with an opening made by the prick of a needle. One never quite knows what will be revealed, and that is what is fascinating, mesmerizing and intriguing about pinhole images.
EXHIBITION | 03-23 August 2010
"WHO WANTS TO TRY?" COMMUNITY EVENT | 12 August 2010, 4-8 pm
CLOSING RECEPTION, SALON NIGHT, & ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION | 26 August 26, 2010 @ 7 pm
Established in 2009, PAC is a collective of artists interested in exploring the artistic medium of pinhole photography. In regular gatherings, the collective engages in both constructive criticism and artistic creation. Growing out of the spirit of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day and a DIY artistic philosophy, they are hands-on, resourceful, and playful. They use analogue and digital processes and are, from time to time, nomadic with their pinhole practices.
PAC is Marian Bulter, Sandra Campbell, Sarah Crawley, William Eakin, Lori Fontaine, Jacquelyn Hebert, Beth Johnson, Jen Loewen, Merrell-Ann Phare, Natasha Peterson, Bonnie Tulloch.