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Stenopes have created a new pinhole room... Further images can be found on their website . There is also a video... " Stenop.es is an experimental visual project using a primitive technique: The Camera Obscura. Applied to an original scale, the project is based on projection from the outside to the inside. Two layers are merging while the landscapes takes place in the interior’s intimacy. " For more work by Stenopes (Romain Alary and Antione Levi), see my previous post on their pinhole camera projects in Paris and Ghat. (Image and video © stenop.es)

Stenop.es is a project by Romain Alary and Antione Levi, creating videos from time-lapse images taken within a camera obscura. " An apartment is completely darkened. A hole is made in a window, letting lights from outside coming in. Projections are taking place everywhere inside. ‬" Literally translated, the Italian term 'camera obscura' means a dark room. Early camera obscura were used by artists as a means to create accurate perspective images. More portable devices became known as pinhole cameras and share the same optical principles as modern cameras. stenop.es  on Vimeo . Ghat  on Vimeo . (Image and videos © stenop.es) Romain and Antione are currently looking for other locations for movies. Make suggestions here .

The current Vermeer exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge has reopened the debate about the significance of perspective in the construction of paintings. The Music Lesson, 1662  (source: Wikimedia Commons) The role of perspective and more specifically the use of a camera obscura in the work of Johannes Vermeer has been explored in recent years by a number of authors. Dubery and Willats (1983) demonstrated that the accurate perspective constructions that underlay Vermeer's paintings made it possible to work backwards from the finished painting and reconstruct the architectural space in three dimensions, using Leonardo's distant point method. In 2001, David Hockney and Philip Steadman both proposed convincing arguments that indicated that this accuracy was based not on a geometrically constructed perspectival space, but was instead derived from the use of a camera obscura. The camera obscura (literally a 'dark room') is based on the optical principles of lenses ...