Parallel Images. Experiments in Multi-Lens Pinhole Photography

Multi-lens pinhole cameras let you see the world in more than one way at once. A single camera can have 2, 10, or even more lenses, capturing different directions simultaneously. The resulting images can overlap and blend freely, or be carefully planned—allowing for panoramic photography, stereoscopy, or even animation.

In this workshop, we’ll dive into the basics of pinhole photography and start building. You’ll create several multi-lens cameras with distinct behaviors—and design your own along the way. Then we’ll put them to use, making a series of experimental exposures on black-and-white photographic paper.

The workshop grows out of my project “PINANIMA” and the cameras developed within it. It’s an invitation to experiment together in a DIY spirit. We’ll keep things simple: build, expose, develop, digitize—and enjoy what happens along the way.

PROGRAM

1. Projection in a camera obscura and the principles of building multi-lens cameras (20-minute introduction)
2. Designing cameras using ready-made boxes, tubes, and cans (60 minutes)
3. Short walks outside with the finished cameras – exposing and developing paper negatives (45 minutes)
4. Digitizing the images – viewing the positives! Wrap-up (30 minutes)

No prior experience in pinhole photography or analog processes is required. I’ll keep things simple—we’ll use just one type of paper and a single development process.

*A discount is available for people with severe disability, students, trainees, pensioners, unemployed people, BFD and FKJ workers.