Different journeys, various moments, the same idea: to capture time, freeze it, trap it on paper and share it.
Different journeys, various moments, the same idea: to capture time, freeze it, trap it on paper and share it.
Pinhole (small orifice).
A dark, sealed space with a small opening on one side through which light can filter and, by refraction, project an inverted image of what lies outside that space—this is known as a camera obscura; the human eye works in much the same way, with the difference that our brain reinverts the image.
Pinhole photography is an analog technique that takes advantage of this property of light and the camera obscura, combining it with photosensitive material that, through a chemical process, reveals an image.
For more than 12 years I have worked with pinhole cameras, seeking to freeze in time the scenes I come across in the different places I visit, making use of the plastic qualities the technique offers, such as distortion, superimposition of images, sweeps or optical effects; and although digital photography has nearly completely displaced analog photography, it has also become one of its tools, since even as the places that processed photographic chemistry have disappeared, devices such as scanners or digital editing and printing software still allow these analog images to be reproduced.
This exhibition is a sample of different stages of my photographic exploration from 1999 to 2009, where the distortion and timelessness of these photographic reproductions offer a dialogue between the image and the viewer.
Maria José Isaza
Fine Arts Teacher