Justin Quinnell research

Justin Quinnell
Quinnell was first introduced to the idea of pinhole when he was four he had to have an operation on his eye. He had to have a bandage over it with a small hole in it as vision. He has also experimented using lots of different objects to create a pinhole for example a wheelie bin, a shoe box and a tin can. He creates his own pinhole cameras using a tin can. He puts them up facing south for a long time to capture the suns movement across the sky for around 3- 6 months. I have created my own pin hole camera using a 500ml can and put photographic paper in it. I also have put it facing south and I will leave it there for around 3 months to create a similar piece to Quinnell's work. This is one of his work which shows what looks like a grave yard for around 3-6 months. It appears to show how the suns position change in the sky over this time. The gaps between where the lines meet shows days or periods of where the sun it not there, like a cloud or a rainy day. This pinhole image below seems to me to be a longer exposure to the one above. The solar lines go off the top of the paper. I prefer the image below because there is less interference in the recording of the sun, as the grave stone and the position of the camera blocks the camera. Whereas, the image below the camera is higher up and captures a better image then the one in the grave yard.
 

Justin Quinnell also experiments using pinhole cameras to capture the experience of a dentist trip. He created tiny pinhole cameras that was around 3 inches across and was said to be indestructible. He put into the mouth of either himself or another patient and it creates a weird and different photo, which had never been produced like this before.

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