May 27, 2011

Solargraphs

What's not to love about solargraphs—multi-week or month exposure images made by pointing pinhole cameras at the sky and recording the trails left by sun. I've always thought of solargraphs as portraits of time itself.

A Finnish student named Tarja Trygg sends pinhole cameras to "assistants" around the world. They record images and mail the cameras back for processing. Trygg has set up a solargraphy website to showcase the results. Some examples (from Alexandria, Egypt and Tijeras New Mexico respectively):
alexandria.jpg

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More solargraphy links: Becky Ramotowski's Castle Rock, flickr sologoraphs, Justin Quinnell's widely blogged solargraphs, Michael Wesely

posted at 03:09 PM by raul

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