Today is the World Pinhole Photography Day. There were times when I did not part with the pinhole camera. The first was the one made from a cocoa can. My dad helped me make it, I was in high school then. A couple years later I made cameras out of matchboxes – it was for negative, not for photographic paper. I am fond of those. Then I had a moment when I converted one of my Zenits into a pinhole camera. Finally, I stopped at Diana Multipinhole Operator. It serves me invariably with medium format films, but I also used to expose direct positive paper in it – that was my great love.

I will show you my lost and found pinhole photographs. Some are black and white (exposed on photographic paper) and some are in colour (on film). Most of them are in an extremely bad resolution. Even though there is some magic in them.

See for yourself.

2010, cocoa can, 10×15 cm photographic paper, self-developed:

2012, matchbox, 35mm negative:

2012, Zenit pinhole camera, 35mm negative:

2013, matchbox, 35mm negative:

2016, matchbox, 35mm negative:

2017, matchbox, 35mm negative:

2018, Diana Multipinhole Operator, 120mm negative:

2019, Diana Multipinhole Operator, 6×6 cm direct positive paper, self-developed:

2020, Diana Multipinhole Operator, 120mm Fomapan 100, self-developed: