August 2005 Archives

Join Pinhole Photography instructor David Ellis in a two-day workshop as you learn to construct pinhole cameras made from ordinary containers, take photographs using photographic paper to create paper negatives and use the darkroom to make prints.

Pinhole photography is the capture of an image using a tiny pin sized hole in a thin sheet of metal allowing a ray of light to enter a container projecting the image onto light sensitive material creating the negative. This primitive process is the origin of modern-day photography, rooted in the camera obscura or "darkened room" novelty of the 15th century.

Harken Productions, AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities Present Life in Our Eyes: The Art of Media and Social Change, a collaborative production fronted by acclaimed documentary filmmaker and AS220 Artist-in-Residence, Michelle Le Brun. Life in Our Eyes is a combined screening and community forum event that brings together scholars, student filmmakers and youth of the Rhode Island Training School. Screenings will be followed by a panel discussion with youth participants, scholars to give a humanities perspective on the issues raised, and the creative director of the project, Michelle Le Brun. We will then open the forum up to the audience in attendance for a question & answer session.