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I invent and build cameras. As anyone who made a pinhole camera in 6th grade knows,
they can be quite simple and straightforward. Mine, however, are not. I make them more complex by adding multiple
apertures or creating unusual structures. Below are a few samples of the dozens of cameras I have built, and some of
the pictures they have taken.
All images are available for sale. I am also available to create and build custom-made cameras,
and to teach you how to use them.
I would be delighted to schedule a studio visit if you are interested in seeing these cameras and
images in person.
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Imagine a cube, with an aperture on one side of
the cube, and film on the other five sides. The film captures the entire scene, just as your eye does. When the
image is re-constructed into a box and you peer into it, it feels like you are looking at the subject itself (instead of looking
at a picture of the subject). Victorian artists painted trompe l'oeil boxes like this.
Though all of my cameras are original, to my knowledge
this is the only camera of its kind in the world.
Images start at $1,500.
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| Brooklyn Bridge |
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| Grand Central Station |
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| Saint Patrick's Cathedral |
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| New York Public Library - Main Reading Room |
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| Laundromat |
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| Laundromat display - with and without linoleum cover |
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I invented this camera to take a picture of my family.
I mounted it on a tripod, and placed everyone around it in a circle. I asked them to hold still for 30 seconds
while the film was exposed, and when the shutter was closed, everyone cheered. Though I reverse-engineered the camera
to take pictures of groups of people, I've found its pictures of cityscapes to be most interesting.
Though it photographs a 360 degree view, it does not take
a traditional panorama image. The images are offset from each other, so that the left side of one segment aligns with the
right side of the segment to the right of it. Clear as mud? It's easier to explain in person; I'd be happy to
walk you through it.
Images start at $1,000.
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| New York Public Library - Main Reading Room |
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I built a camera with 360 apertures, and built
separate compartments between each aperture and the film plane. This camera creates a pixelated image of a subject which is
composed out of small detail pictures of that subject. While the whole image is right-side-up and forwards, it is created
out of images that are upside-down and backwards.
To my knowledge, this is also a one-of-a-kind.
Images start at $750.
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| Self Portrait |
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| Simon's Plant |
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This camera was big enough to climb into. I built it into the space left between the
top of a closet and the ceiling in my studio. It was magical to sit inside and watch the image slowly form as my eyes
dilated.
Because the camera was so large, and because I was using photo paper as a negative (which
acts like very slow film), the exposures were extremely long. The longest was two days. People appear as ghosts,
if at all.
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This was one of the first cameras I built. It's similar to the Pixel Camera above, except
that each of the images is wide-angle instead of zoom. I love to see the tiling patterns that emerge in pictures taken
with this camera.
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| Cubicle |
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