Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is held each year on the last Sunday of April.

(Image courtesy of https://pinholeday.org/)

This is an international event created to promote and celebrate the art of pinhole photography.  People throughout the world are encouraged to:

• take some time off from the increasingly technological world we live in and to participate in the simple act of making a pinhole photograph, and to
• share their visions and help spread the unusual beauty of this historical photographic process.

Pinhole photography allows you to make a photograph that requires only a light-tight container (box, can,…) with a tiny hole in one side (as a camera) and any photo-sensitive surface in it. You can adapt an existing camera, or make the camera yourself . The experience of image-making becomes a little more special when created with your own hand-made camera.  The WPPD website provides instructions to make a variety of pinhole your cameras.

With your own camera, infinite depth-of-field, skewed perspectives, and slower exposures, you may ultimately become more creative and more selective about what you choose to photograph. Magical things happen in pinhole photography…