BBC1 pulls focus on pinhole photography
Friday, 24 April 2009
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Justin Quinnell, part-time lecturer on BA(Hons) Photography and one of the world's leading pinhole photographers, joins Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley on the BBC 1 One Show tonight to discuss the ninth World Pinhole Photography Day - a major global festival - taking place on Sunday 26 April 2009.
Justin visited the Clifton Suspension Bridge earlier this week with Marty Jopson, the inventions and technology reporter for the topical magazine-style show, to take a series of slow light images to be shown on the television programme this evening.
"Anyone can make a pinhole camera and discover the wonder and simplicity of taking images," said Justin. "It's great fun creating amazing images with a lensless camera - it gives us all the opportunity to re-discover the wonder of science, art and light. You can make a pinhole camera using anything, from a tin can to a wellington boot!"
Pinhole photography is lens free photography, and is a method of capturing images using a simple light-tight box with a single pinhole in one end. Images can be taken slowly over time and the process involves being creative with the light from the sun.
Anyone, anywhere in the world, who makes a pinhole photograph on Pinhole Day, can scan the image and upload it to the http://www.pinholeday.org/ website, where it will become part of the premier gallery of lensless photography.
Last year, 2628 participants from 63 countries contributed images to the WPPD 2008 Gallery. Over 100 events - workshops, exhibits, lectures, etc. - were held throughout the world. All of these events were coordinated locally by volunteers.
Justin is also a freelance pinhole photographer and is currently building a camera obscura at the 15th Century National Trust property, Trerice in Cornwall and has been working as a consultant on the multi-million dollar movie ,The Brothers Bloom, starring oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz as a pinhole photographer and due to be realeased in May 2009.
The BBC One Show broadcasts weekdays on BBC 1 at 6.58pm.
For further information about Pinhole Photography and to view Justin's images, visit www.pinholephotography.org.
For further information about BA(Hons) Photography at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/photogoraphy, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 214384.
University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.
This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012, that will be unique to the South West.
The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union, the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.
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