Pinhole Camera Workshop for Families

This workshop with Shelby Roberts & Daphna Lapidot is open to kids, parents and caretakers, and limited to 10 participants.
Please register to attended.

Using the eccentric homemade camera collection of the Los Angeles hobbyist photographer George Lane Benson (1935-2012), workshop participants will explore Hermon Park and make a series of unique darkroom prints. Participants will learn about optics of the camera obscura, aperture, and depth of field. We will look at and discuss photographers that have used the pinhole camera towards diverse aims. With the assistance of cardboard boxes painted black, participants will make photographs that bypass not only the camera lens but metadata, the cloud, the data center, and the algorithm. Using darkroom chemistry, participants will be invited to develop 4 by 5 and 8 by 10-inch silver gelatin prints. Art in the Park hopes that this demonstration of nineteenth and twentieth century photographic processes will provide a space for participants to consider image making in pre-digital times, and to celebrate the life and career of an under-recognized artist.

For more information, see the main page for Uncle George’s Cameras