Eric Renner
Member, Freestyle Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals
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As featured in our Fall 2005 Catalog
Why pinhole? Because pinhole is intuitive. Pinhole fits a certain kind of sensibility. A certain kind of feeling exists in every image, more or less. That feeling, I believe, relates directly to the very enigmatic piece of matter (or is it non-matter?) known as a person's soul. Of course, this is an elusive demand to place upon every pinhole photograph and not something that anyone can obtain simply by using pinhole cameras, yet I do believe somehow this connection exists - at least I feel it does for me. I use a pinhole camera because the image is a more personal, direct, and obtainable link to a universal mental picture or concept of "beyond" — that area past the boundaries of reality. It's probably the way I see in a dream! Time and living have never been particularly easy concepts for me to understand, yet constructing pinhole cameras and creating pinhole photographs somehow makes these concepts more accessible. I've always been excited to see just what my pinhole camera will do, with a certain amount of help from those sources beyond my conscious faculties, for I never fully know what's going to be in the image — there's the surprise I look forward to! It seems I am somehow closer to my own person by allowing the image to be something over which I don't have full control. |