Courtney Wise
Photography
Pinhole - Stenope (60 x 33 cm)
The Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1986. Wolf uses colored paper and the pinhole technique to distort the usually imposing straight lines of this famous monument. I believe he captures the tower in a completely unique and incredible way that explores the uses of pinhole cameras.
Ilan Wolff
Ilan Wolff was born in Nahariya, Isreal in 1955. He went through several art schools, studying many different aspects such as Graphic Design and Photography. Beginning 1981 Wolff began to create using the pinhole technique with cameras made from old boxes or cans, similar to the techniques taught in many photography classes today.
Wolff worked on many projects in the following years such as "New York through the pinhole" for Kodak, "Life in the Deseret" for the Minister of Culture of France, and "IMAGINA" for C.A.F. (Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia).
Wolff created a camera obscura from his own studio in 1992 and began taking the images from inside, while also creating the technique called the "pinogram". The pinogram combines the pinhole and photogram in the same exposure time. In Paris he used his car to create pinograms of monuments, and in Switzerland he used many different products to create pinhole cameras. In 2004 Wolff also captured nature by the light of the moon in "lunagrams", a pinhole image using the light seen by night. He still is working on projects, and gives workshops in a range of universities about his techniques.