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17th June 2004

Have taken some advice from photographer friends. To begin with I shall use my old Cannon SLR and a fine grain black and white film plus tripod. But I also have another idea to try out. I would like to construct a pinhole camera. These can be set up to record over a lengthy time span - the moment is not frozen (as at speed in Muybridges work). Neither is it flattened as is usual in photography because a pinhole camera more sympathetically reflects how we see the world (curved - like a goldfish bowl) and is closer to embodied seeing. Sian Bonnell, a photographer friend and director of Trace Gallery (which has an excellent web site), recommended a book Pinhole,  Alex Renner, now ordered.