June 6 Pinhole Photos

Surveillance is everywhere. I have my doubts to its effectiveness, it seems primarily a tool to assuage the viewers paranoia while creating paranoia in the viewed. All of us. Nonetheless, baring a change in history, it seems with us for the foreseeable future. Surveillance is also the theme for a show of photographs by Audim Culver. Culver employs pinhole photography in which a tiny hole is the lens. Just air! These first lenses were known to the ancient Chinese and Greeks, long before the models of diffraction and refraction in optics were conceived. Physics has evolved some too since - recently materials with a negative index of diffraction have been demonstrated, the "left handed materials". At the Albina Press 4637 N. Albina 8-10PM Free