Sian Bonnell

Working with a pinhole camera utilises methods of chance. There is no lens or viewfinder, so no way of knowing what the photograph will look like if it is successful. In making this work, I set myself the question, is it possible to believe that moulds and bowls could masquerade as hills if depicted in black and white? Could I also convince if I did the same thing using colour negative film, which might render the landscape more ‘real’ but which again played with failure due to the use of out of date film and the reciprocity failure that long exposure times would cause. These photographs were very odd but strangely believable.