A pinhole camera is a simple camera without lens and with a single small aperture – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box. The human eye in bright light acts similarly, as do cameras using small apertures.

At these four workshops, Martin will introduce how a pinhole camera works and demonstrate how to construct a pinhole camera using cardboard only. Participants will learn how an image is projected on the photographic paper by constructing their own pinhole camera, and developing their own unique film.

Artist's Profile

Martin Cheung was born in HK. He graduated in Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) major in Fine Arts Photography at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne Australia in 2001. He is fond of Camera Obscura and Cantonese Barbecue. Cheung’s best known work is Duck Cam – Melbourne (2001), a conceptual photographic work which he converted a Roast Duck into a Pinhole camera, photographing Melbourne’s Chinatown. The work is collected by Pinhole Resource.