I started this project, as a follow up after the photographer Abelardo Morell (https://www.abelardomorell.net/). I decided to work with the same ideas and principles in another way, and work with my own materials.
I was done in two ways:
First, I turned a room in my house to be a camera obscura. I made it completely dark, leaving in the window a 2 cm hole, which projected the outside to the inside, to the facing wall, taking long exposure pictures with a camera that was on a tripod just under the projecting hole. Then i started to play: I stood there myself, invited my wife to bed, put a mirror that changed the direction of the projection to another wall, made another room a camera obscura room, invited guests, including my over 90 years old parents, and more. part of this project is presented here.
The idea in this mode of work is to combine, incorporate the digital with the analogue, incorporating the outside with the inside, making things look different, and yet familiar.
As in this way I was limited to my home, I started another project within this one. I made a device which I call "PerisCamera" (copyright my daughter Eden), all made from home materials: I asked my plumber for a bend 3" pipe, I took a trash can, took off it's base, and opened 2 holes in the cap: one for the pipe and one for the camera. In the pipe I inserted a piece of mirror, and now, the semi-periscope is projecting the view on the ground, and I just have to snap it into my camera! Again I started to play: I took my PerisCamera to various places, taking personal indoors and outdoors images, landscapes and more. In this way, similar to the room project, I incorporate the digital with the analogue, outside and inside, bringing the view to the ground where it is watched from. Part of this work is presented here.
