The Online Portfolio Project
- Dec 2007
The Pinhole Photography of Al Karevy
New Works
"The vast majority of my commercial work is now digital. I have not been able to take my personal work into the digital realm. Black and white darkroom work is relaxing and intrinsically more fulfilling than sitting in front of a computer. There is more of a connection with the process.
Usually while photographing I like to notice what I notice, but with the pinhole camera I am noticing what I can’t see. The nature of the capture transforms the reality in front of the pinhole into something like a bug’s eye view of the world. It is threatening, big, and monochromatic.
Photographing with a pinhole camera feels more like a direct link to the image because of the simplicity of the process. The intuitiveness and serendipity of putting a simple box camera on the ground and guessing at the time of exposure is photography unencumbered by technology. I am paying attention to something other than designing a photo. It is all an experiment.
I like it that way.”
