- courtesy of Metabolic Studio
Most pinhole cameras are made out of shoe boxes. But Lauren Bon, Richard Nielsen, and Tristan Duke’s pinhole camera is a shipping crate. Since 2010 the three artists, all part of the optics team at LA’s Metabolic Studio, which uses “devices of wonder” to investigate energy sources, have been traveling the globe with this “liminal camera” in order to document the ways people use water resources.
“We hadn’t experimented with the camera as a portrait medium,” Duke says. “We were shooting at night. It was a really spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment thing. Depending on how still a person stood, there are strange effects. They are blurry close up, but when you see them from a few paces back, they start looking more and more resolved.”
