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10 inspiring pinhole photos

Self Portrait with Big Damn Atlas by Katie Cooke

The fact that a friend of mine is doing a pinholes photography exhibition inspired me to start looking for some more fantastic examples of pinhole photography in the deepest depths of the FlickrWebs.

I discovered two things: I need to get back to low-fi photography, and there’s a lot of talented people out there.

But what am I doing waffling – I’m sure you just want to look at photos, don’t you? Can’t blame ya. Here you go!

1 – Pont d’Aquitaine

Pont d'Aquitaine by Steven Monteau

2 – Peter Iredale

Peter Iredale by Zeb Andrews

3 – Virginia Park

Virginia Park by Matt Callow

4 – The ghosts in my grandmother’s house

The ghosts in my grandmother's house by Donovan Rees

5 – Dream Colors

Dream Colors by Noriko Ohba

Dream Colors by Noriko Ohba

6 – Foot Fetish on Neptune

Foot Fetish on Neptune by Refractionless

Foot Fetish on Neptune by Refractionless

7 – Je est un autre

Je est un autre by Nhung Dang

8 – River Typewriter

River Typewriter by Sean Duggan

9 – The First Man to Witness the Beginning of the End of the World

The First Man to Witness the Beginning of the End of the World by Scott Speck

10 – Self portrait with Big Damn Atlas

Self Portrait with Big Damn Atlas by Katie Cooke

Wanna have a go yourself?

If you want to try a spot of pinhole photography yourself, you could do a lot worse than reading Katie’s Teaching a Cardboard Box to be a Camera; it’s a great little introduction to creating your own pinholes.

Of course, you can also skip the film phase altogether and create a pinhole lens-cap for your dSLR camera!

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