Over the course of the past four years I have built a photographic practice set around self-made pinhole cameras. My endeavours into pinhole photography started with and continue to grow amidst my lack of satisfaction when it comes to using digital photography to capture imagery of natural wilderness.
Photography has the inherent ability to flatten our entire lives, existences into timeless images of tone, shadows and highlights. Digital photography can do this almost instantly, without thinking. Hiking through such terrain as found in the highlands of Iceland you do not get the feeling these landscapes appeared in the snap of the fingers, in such systematic fashion as the settings found on the back of a camera. With building my own pinhole cameras I am in control of designing a method of capturing light that can incorporate the essence found in such terrain. Producing imagery that has a life of its own, harbouring ideals of time and formation.
These photographs I feel play with the duality of passing time and our obsession with trying to controlling it. How we view our own reality through our perception of time as well as the machines we use in everyday life. How this slower more meditative take on photography gives these images their own perspective and reality.
