Watch a pinhole camera turn empty apartments into living photographs
Watch a pinhole camera turn empty apartments into living photographs
The camera obscura is one
of the simplest ways to reproduce imagery in the world, but a pair of
French photographers are using its basic principles to turn entire
apartments into canvases. Traditionally, a camera obscura is created by
taking a light-proof box and making a pinhole in it; hence the term
"pinhole camera." Light enters the box through the hole, and recreates
the image on the opposite wall, upside down. Romain Alary and Antoine Levi use the same technique,
but with large physical spaces as their light-proof box instead — and
then they film the result. It allows them to create dreamy, surreal
montages where the physical textures of an apartment wall merge with the
busy street outside in a kind of Inception-esque mash-up of reality and dream.
