Camera Obscura Explained – the Art of Pinhole
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Date & Time
Sat, Apr 25 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Address (map)
229 E. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Venue (website)
Architecture Foundation of S.B.
AFSB Art Gallery Presents an Artist Talk with Lindsay Skutch whose striking black & white photographs of familiar sights in Southern California are taken with pinhole cameras she constructs using Sanka coffee cans, cardboard CBD containers, and Christmas cookie tins.
The photographs are an eerie, outside of time feeling, like buried memories or dimly remembered dreams.
Pinhole cameras are a form of camera obscura (Latin for dark chamber), a room or box with a small opening that allows light to pass through a tiny pinhole, and project an inverted image of what is outside onto photographic paper on the opposite surface inside.
The exposure varies depending on the location, sun direction, and subject matter.
The paper is processed in a darkroom and it becomes the negative.
Skutch prints all of her photographs from cameras she makes and negatives she processes.
The Pinhole Noir by Lindsay Skutch Exhibition runs from March 28 through May 30, 2026.
The AFSB Art Gallery is open to the public on Saturdays from 1 – 4 p.m.
