Mr. Eric Renner is the founder and co-director of Pinhole Resource, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing information about pinhole photography. He is also founder and co-editor of Pinhole Journal, published three times a year, and gives educational lectures and workshops internationally. Renner has worked in pinhole photography for 32 years. Some of his recent work in assemblages are made in collaboration with his wife Nancy Spencer. His photographs are exhibited in major collections throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the California Museum of Photography, the National Gallery of Canada, and Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, France. Renner is the author of "Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique"

Why Pinhole
Because a pinhole camera 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 ....full article