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At the start of my residency on Eilean Shona in 2024 I made a series of pin hole cameras out of tin cans. Whilst initially exploring my new terrain I placed them out in the landscape to record my month of time on the island. My parting gift to the island was installing a further set of pin-hole cameras in securely fixed locations to remain for a full year... or at least as long as the elements allowed.
Below are a few of the digitally inverted high resolution scans of the silver gelatin paper negatives retrieved from the pin hole cameras.
At the start of my residency on Eilean Shona in 2024 I made a series of pin hole cameras out of tin cans. Whilst initially exploring my new terrain I placed them out in the landscape to record my month of time on the island. My parting gift to the island was installing a further set of pin-hole cameras in securely fixed locations to remain for a full year... or at least as long as the elements allowed.
Below are a few of the digitally inverted high resolution scans of the silver gelatin paper negatives retrieved from the pin hole cameras.
> ONE MONTH - At the summit of Beinn a' Bhàillidh
Pin-hole photograph (digitally inverted c-type print)
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
Made from a silver gelatin paper negative exposed inside a tin can for a month.
Pin-hole photograph (digitally inverted c-type print)
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
Made from a silver gelatin paper negative exposed inside a tin can for a month.
> ONE YEAR - At the summit of Beinn a' Bhàillidh
Pin-hole photograph (digitally inverted c-type print)
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
Made from a silver gelatin paper negative exposed inside a tin can for a year.
Pin-hole photograph (digitally inverted c-type print)
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
Made from a silver gelatin paper negative exposed inside a tin can for a year.
> ONE MONTH - Looking across Loch Moidart
Pin-hole photograph (digitally inverted c-type print)
Dimensions: 5 x 7 inches
Made from a silver gelatin paper negative exposed inside a tin can for a month.
Pin-hole photograph (digitally inverted c-type print)
Dimensions: 5 x 7 inches
Made from a silver gelatin paper negative exposed inside a tin can for a month.
> ONE YEAR - Looking across Loch Moidart
Pin-hole photograph (digitally inverted c-type print)
Dimensions: 5 x 7 inches
Made from a silver gelatin paper negative exposed inside a tin can for a year.
Pin-hole photograph (digitally inverted c-type print)
Dimensions: 5 x 7 inches
Made from a silver gelatin paper negative exposed inside a tin can for a year.
I intended to use whatever resources were at hand to make work while away from my familiar surroundings, and find my own visual language on the island. In Red Cottage I embraced a DIY approach and turned the small corridor space by the fridge into a make-shift darkroom. I constructed pin-hole cameras from empty food containers and located them out in the landscape. Going analogue enabled me to create long exposure images that recorded the same light duration of lunar cycles as I physically had on the island. By preparing a set of pin-hole cameras on the day I arrived it meant I have images that represent a complete month's worth of time. During the final few days of my residency I installed a further set of pin-hole cameras in securely fixed locations to remain for a full year. These were kindly returned to me by this years artist in resident Amanda Cornish.
Finding suitable locations for the cameras was a challenge as I was aware of being respectful to the fragile landscape and leaving no trace. I’d noticed various human interventions - from wildlife camera traps on posts scattered around monitoring the deer; to info badges fixed on trees around the island. The island's former owner seafaring Captain Swinburne had collected numerous types of pine on his worldly travels and established what became one of the most diverse Pinetums in Europe. So my I felt my high-vis bright orange ‘hide in plain sight’ approach to locating my pin hole cameras was just an another temporarily human addition to the landscape.
Finding suitable locations for the cameras was a challenge as I was aware of being respectful to the fragile landscape and leaving no trace. I’d noticed various human interventions - from wildlife camera traps on posts scattered around monitoring the deer; to info badges fixed on trees around the island. The island's former owner seafaring Captain Swinburne had collected numerous types of pine on his worldly travels and established what became one of the most diverse Pinetums in Europe. So my I felt my high-vis bright orange ‘hide in plain sight’ approach to locating my pin hole cameras was just an another temporarily human addition to the landscape.
Documentation of the pin-hole cameras I left on Eilean Shona installed on 24th March 2024.