Camera Obscura

Camera Obscura is latin for "dark room." The devices date back to the 5th century BC. At its simplest incarnation, a camera obscura consists of a dark box with a pinhole sized "lens" on one side. Light enters the lens and is refracted to produce an image on the opposite side. The cameras were often used as a drawing aid for artists. Camera obscuras can range in size from a small handheld box to room-sized. The smaller sized incarnations evolved into the film cameras we know and love today once light sensitive films were developed.

Favorite Photographer

Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, the photographers behind Toilet Paper Magazine, are among my favorite photographers. The humor and often jarring grotesqueness of their images paired with bright and glossy content and colors gives their work an unmistakeable look and feel that land them among my favorites.