What an awkward and irrational life it looks like for those who engage in pinhole photography, from the perspective of a person who is rushing everywhere these days but nowhere. Pinhole deprives us of the main "advantages" of our daily routine: rush and life from inertia. Pinhole is the other way around than we are used to today. You can't move out of inertia, you have to be patient, you can't just watch – you have to see. Pinhole – going upstream constantly thinking about light and time.
When photographing a pinhole, you must identify with the environment. Remaining a foreign body will deny the need for meditation, and meditation here is as important as breathing. Pinhole process and result is managed not by the program, but by man and box. Manages, but can't control. A person depends on the box and the box depends on the person. It prolongs a person or, in other words, becomes the third eye. So it's not a tool, but a personalized second you who creates a feeling of light and time.
Pinhole mocks luck. This concept does not exist for him. It is possible to count, measure, predict, but the feeling in the box falls off on the exact numbers. The photographic fact of the pinhole is not an image, but a state in which it is more important not to accurately convey the subject, but to deliberately imprison the feeling. The reality and rigability of the result depends on whether there is a symbiotic relationship between man and the box or not...
Pinhole writing light in extended time always gives the image a certain mysticism. He has his own special aura, giving him an indeterminate status. Apparently, not in vain, camera obscura was used to prove the existence of the devil.
Pinhole is the philosophy of seeing the world and sometimes the way of life. Those who create pinhole, panic photo thinking. Are they photographic aesthetics, or rather ascetic? They are all united by a responsible and pondered approach to photography and the environment. They're probably the only ones who fit the world through a needle hole from any angle.
Pinhole photography really isn't a stopped moment. One thing you stop in this process is yourself; slow down your thoughts and life experience. Pinhole is the key to creative reflection on reality...
Katie D
