The Pinhole Camera and Slow Photography with Micheal Falco
The Pinhole Camera and Slow Photography with Michael Falco
Join us via Zoom - Wednesday, September 9th, at 7 pm EDT
Join us as Michael Falco shares how the pinhole camera invites us into a slower, more elemental way of seeing, and the beauty that surfaces when light is given time to gather. About ten years ago, as digital photography and social media accelerated the pace of image-making, Falco set out to slow down, trading precision and instant gratification for something that demanded more time with the process. He works with a series of handmade pinhole cameras, built by his brother, and large format negatives.
Together, we will consider the elemental qualities of long exposures, where light accumulates slowly and the passage of time arrives into the frame. As Falco puts it, "Where digital photography is like great non-fiction, pinhole photography somehow has the emotional honesty, subjective truth, of a great novel. Each image carries with it a story, or many different stories."
What happens when we stop chasing the decisive moment and let time unfold to shape the image?
Michael Angelo Falco is a photographer, author, and songwriter residing in Rock Tavern, New York. In his 30-plus years as a professional photographer, Falco’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including National Geographic and The New York Times. His work can be found in museum collections and in the National Archive at the Library of Congress. Falco’s published books include “Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America’s Main Street”, 2003; “Caddell Dry Dock:100 Years Harbourside”, 2008; and “Echoes of the Civil War: Capturing Battlefields with a Pinhole Camera”, 2016.
