Lucy Phillips, a British photographer, created pinhole cameras from matchboxes and sent them to anyone who asked for one, loaded with one shot. She asked participants to take "what cannot be seen" and send the camera back for her to develop the film. Which is a fantastic idea for a public project, and elicited some very touching photos (someone's birth mother, someone's foetus, a mother's old letters, a place to smoke, toadstools in a garden, music, sanctuary), and makes you wonder at the confessional (or, perhaps, artistic?) instinct in people, and raises the question that seems to always accompany projects of this kind - which part of it is art? Or perhaps - because it's photography, because it's a pretentious question (a question with pretensions to theory) - that's not at all the right question. Have a pinhole garden instead:
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