multi-story artist Iseult Timmermans has converted rooms in an empty flat in the Red Road Estate into camera obscura’s. In the living room the image of the Iconic flats wraps around the walls, while in the bedrooms clouds blow wildly across the floor, tiny cars can be seen scurrying across the ceiling and occasionally seagulls swoop across the whole view.
Iseult involved people from across the community in workshop sessions during the Easter holidays, viewing the obscura rooms and then making their own pinhole cameras from old tins and boxes. The groups then made and developed their own pinhole photographs in a temporary darkroom set up in the flats kitchen. Iseult will use a selection of these images to create digital collages that will be printed as posters and these will be displayed in the GOMA exhibition alongside a set of large scale pinhole prints made from within the obscura..
Iseult is also producing a set of large scale black and white pinhole photographs, made from within the obscura rooms, alongside a series of color digital and film prints.
The camera obscura and pinhole photography demonstrates the simple magic of the photographic process and never fails to amaze and engage people of all ages and backgrounds.
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