Dates: Saturday, November 1

Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm

Instructor: Nick Dvoracek

This workshop teaches participants to build a creative and functional pinhole camera from recycled cardboard. The class emphasizes that a great picture is a result of the photographer's skill, not the camera's, and that previsualization is a key skill to develop. Once students create their pinhole camera, they will expose a 12 exposure roll of film with it, develop the roll, and capture positives digitally.

Prior to the start of the workshop, students will receive additional information, including links to review and a list of optional items to bring. While all necessary materials are supplied, you are welcome to bring your own computer, a tripod, and any of your favorite packaging boxes to use for your camera's design.

Instructor Bio: When I was 11 my family moved from Indiana to Wisconsin. My mother gave me her pre-war box camera to take pictures of the friends I was leaving and of my new environment. A decade later when I worked in the Library at UW-Stout, one employee benefit was a free course per semester. I took an evening photography class and got hooked. After graduate school in Audio-Visual Communications, my first job was as the AV department of a small liberal arts college. They also let me teach photography. One year I was asked to choose the juror for the Student Art Show. It ended up being Ruth Thorne-Thomson, who’s pinhole work was being acquired for numerous major collections. She did a workshop that introduced me to pinhole photography and camera making. At the beginning of the millennium, I taught several years of two week pinhole photography classes for late-elementary school children. Since then, I’ve almost exclusively worked in pinhole using cameras I make myself out of cardboard. I have written the blog "Pinholica" since 2015.