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Pinhole Photography and the Power of Light with @thepopuppinholeco

To discover more pinhole photography browse the #pinhole and #pinholephotography hashtags and follow @kellyangood and @thepopuppinholeco on Instagram. To view more photos of the “Drawn by Light” exhibition, explore the Science Museum location page and browse the #drawnbylight hashtag.

“People are so used to taking a picture with their phone or a digital camera and using the viewfinder. But with a pinhole camera, you have to use your eyes,” says Kelly Angood (@kellyangood), a London Instagrammer who makes pinhole cameras for her business, The Pop-up Pinhole Company (@thepopuppinholeco).

“With pinhole photography it’s the light creating the image. You forget that light travels in straight lines,” she says. “It goes into the pinhole and refracts to create the image. Your eyes work in the same way.”

“When you’re in a park and you see the light falling through a tree, that’s essentially the same concept as pinhole photography, it’s light projection.”

Opening this week, “Drawn by Light” at London’s Science Museum (@mediaspaceldn) explores the origins of the photographic process. Commenting on the exhibition, Kelly adds, “These first early examples show a real experimentation and scientific development. The thing they all have in parallel is an individual ability to act as a time capsule for very second the photo was shot.”

“Each image had visual cues as to when they were taken, but they all had an over arching timeless energy. There must be images side-by-side in that exhibition that were taken hundreds of years apart, yet it was the same sunlight that helped capture them.”

Colin Harding, the show’s curator, said, “Photography literally means ‘drawing with light’. For nearly 200 years, people have been seduced by the idea of harnessing the power of light to reflect their unique take on the world around them. This exhibition celebrates that ingenuity from the very beginnings of photography right through to the modern day.”

The exhibition runs until March 1, 2015 in London before traveling to Bradford, UK, and Mannheim, Germany, in 2017.

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