Film and stuff.
Day 3. Where has all the music gone? by Olive Dean. A set of pinhole photographs of the Saughton Bandstand lead the ever present shadow of the viewer towards the empty stucture. Nostalgic and a little eerie, the works explore the newly restored pavillion.
THE GALLERY IS OPEN (Click to enter)
Day 2 brings us the work of Donald Tainsh – Timescapes .
Donald takes the pinhole camera on excursion – an adapted 35mm film camera is mounted on a bicycle and operated remotely by cable release.
THE GALLERY IS OPEN (Click to enter)
THE GALLERY IS OPEN (Click to enter)
As we celebrate all things pinhole photography in the month leading up to Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day on the Sunday the 26th of April our exhibition opens online! New work will be added each day.
Let There Be Light is inspired by the motto carved above Edinburgh Central Library‘s main doors. Carnegie insisted this was placed above the entrance to every library he funded and the motto is as suitable for illumination through learning as it is for photography, a medium designed to record light.
While we are sad that our photographic prints can not be viewed as physical objects at this time we hope to bring them to you at a later date as Part 2 of this exhibition, which is tentatively scheduled for August 2020.
Day 1 features Graeme Lyall who “tried to take photographs with light when it was dark”, working through the winter wind, rain and sleet, to make beautiful portraits of classical Edinburgh.
Brittonie Fletcher is currently teaching the Mordancage process at the Penumbra Foundation, NY.
With a passion for perfecting the chemical mix behind the alluring results of alternative processes, Brittonie Fletcher has introduced most of the group to techniques they had never even thought of trying .
Whilst in New York she has also discovered a gallery showing the Mordancage work of Jean-Pierre Sudre which is well worth enjoying on-line.
Photographer, inventor, and artist – John Beaver is currently teaching at Dalkeith Palace as part of the “Wisconsin in Scotland” initiative of the University of Wisconsin.
… sort-of inventions of what I call cyanonegative photography and ephemeral-process photography
John is the author of The Physics and Art of Photography – a three volume set of books detailing his photographic findings.
We have the opportunity to go out to Dalkeith to visit John on Monday the 22nd of July. The grounds of Dalkeith Palace are the perfect spot for a photowalk and picnic. Please email info@edinburghlofi.com to register interest. We will meet at 11am at Dalkeith Palace.
Award winning photographer, Olive Dean finds creative insights in her beautifully tended garden. Working with natural UV from the sun she creates lumenographs, cyanotypes, cyanolumens and chemigrams.
Pinhole day 2019 photowalk – links and images.
Thanks to everyone who made it out on Sunday, great weather and company for producing a wide variety of pinhole images.
Add your image from the day to pinholeday.org. Work must be submitted to them by 31st May to be included in the 2019 on-line exhibition. (Select Edinburgh LoFi in the gallery group option.)
Images added can be found in the Edinburgh LoFi Gallery
Email images in for our website at any time, we all want to see the cameras made and how the images made turned out. DIY instructions, tips and tricks used welcome.
See Ali’s and Donald’s images and cameras on their blogs.
And from Graeme via Flickr –
This years pinhole photo walk will take us around historic Musselburgh.
We will meet outside the Brunton auditorium (Ladywell Way, Musselburgh EH21 6AA) at 10:30am and meander through the historic and modern parts, also taking in the river and shore. The LRT buses 26, 30 and 44 stop just outside the Brunton.
We will have a stop for coffee at 11:30am and then go on to lunch about 1:30pm.
Everyone is welcome and we will have plenty of spare cameras and advice for first time pinhole photographers. Please email if you have any questions.
Check out our other pinhole photography posts for inspiration and DIYs.
Events gone by in past years herald those forthcoming in the new. Edinburgh LoFi’s new members exhibition – Almanac – uses traditional, alternative and lomographic photographic processes to record the weather, tides, star paths, seasonal events of the past calendar and personal journeys.
2nd March (Saturday) to 29th March (Friday) 2019
Art and Design Department,
Central Library,
George IV Bridge,
Edinburgh
http://edinburghlofi.com/news/exhibitions/almanac/
The exhibition at the Art and Design Library contains work by:
Alan Borthwick
Sheila Borthwick
Olive Dean
Brittonie Fletcher
Mandy Kerr
Ali Millar
Graeme Pow
Elaine Robson
Roddy Shippin
John Sumpter
and “Uncredited”.
The Edinburgh LoFi group was started nine years ago at the Beyond Words photography bookshop to promote and explore film photography at its most amazing. The group is now run collectively.
Wonderful weather for our final Summer Sunday photography outing of 2018.
We started under the Tay Bridge –
Before crossing to see the new V&A and having our usual modest lunch in Dundee city center!
We rounded off the day by visiting Tentsmuir Forest and Beach for some seawater cyanotypes and exploration.
Our next regular 2nd Tuesday monthly meeting is on the 9th of October, everyone welcome. Bring your Russian Cameras and prints as it it Red October all month.
