Artifacts of an Uncertain Origin by Seán Duggan, July/August 2010

“…a pinhole camera has no lens, just a tiny pinhole through which light enters and exposes the scene…

For this series, a central and very important part of the photographs is my experience in making them. And part of the experience is viewing the actual artifacts in the scene and finding unexpected arrangements and relationships with the surrounding landscape. I also enjoy overcoming the logistical and physical challenges that can arise when making some of these photographs…the process and the journey of making the image are just as important to me as is the final destination of the finished print.
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Using a simple wooden pinhole camera, Seán Duggan, has created a body of work that is very different from the images he makes with a DSLR. His pinhole camera subjects are unusual artifacts that he compares to poems or short stories in their ability to suggest a narrative.

Seán Duggan is a photographer, author and educator with a traditional, fine art photographic background combined with nearly two decades of extensive real world experience in the field of digital imaging. He is a co-author of The Creative Digital Darkroom (O’Reilly Media, 2008), Photoshop Artistry (New Riders, 2006) and Real World Digital Photography, 2nd Edition (Peachpit Press, 2004). You can see more of the Artifacts of an Uncertain Origin series at www.seanduggan.com.