World Pinhole Photography Day 2020: Our Top 10 Favorites!
Since 2001, the last Sunday in April has marked World Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD), an annual celebration of one of the most democratic tools in photography, a tool that allows photographers from around the globe an equal playing field. The cameras themselves come in all types of formats, sizes, and colors, in an almost endless variety. And though they are all different, they all share the same attributes: there are no technological advantages, no precise focusing, and no viewfinder. All things most people would find disadvantages when making images; however, this creative group of photographers have taken these flaws and turned them into creative fuel for their artistic work and embraced the very nature of photography at its most refined.
With this in mind, we are pleased to present our top 10 images (well 13, because we had more favorites than that) from World Pinhole Photography Day 2020. The selected images capture the world going by around us as we sit in silence and await our exposures to be completed. They grant us perspective, unreal sights, and new insight that allow us to meditate on the world around us.
After you are done viewing our favorites make sure you had over to Pinhole Day’s website to see all of the images submitted to their gallery and get prepared to participate next year!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Behlen is a photography enthusiast from Fresno, CA. He works in finance and spends his free time shooting instant film and backpacking in the California wilderness, usually a combination of the two. He has been published, been interviewed, and been reviewed in a quantity of magazines and online publications, from F-Stop and Blur magazine to the Analog Talk Podcast. He loves the magic sensuality of instant film: its saturated, surreal colors; the unpredictability of the medium; it’s addictive qualities as you watch it develop. He is the founder of Analog Forever Magazine. Connect with Michael Behlen on his Website and on Instagram!
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