In 2005, László Kerekes invented the digital pinhole camera, and considered digital pinhole photography to be an important milestone of his artistic career. The ethereal photographs presented below, mostly made in Berlin, show why. His own website provides detailed technical descriptions and an essay on digital pinhole photography. In this essay, he wrote:
During my experiments with shadows and reflections of light I observed that the poetics of these photographs concerned the energies of the transitory, having always to do with the rules of speed and coincidence. It is no mistake if the images seem to be not perfect, partially unfocused, however more than I intended, attaining some kind of dreamlike reality on the border to the illusionary. Therefore, in order to increase the credibility of these dimensions, I proceeded as I did with my installations and added in certain instances some artificial objects between elements of architectural or scenic compositions, shot in Berlin. It is a sort of romanticizing of what this specially reflected but recognizable urban landscape generally and in detail is about. The images are not designs; I leave them pure in their authentic aesthetics. As in the experiments of avantgarde photographers in the past, when there was no computer technology.
László Kerekes (around 2005)
