PINHOLE CIRCULATION
Heritage through the eye of the needle is a LAC project that aims to value – rediscovering and reinventing the imagery of Stenopeic Photography – a diverse horizon of classified buildings of recognized historical, architectural and cultural importance, as well as developing and preserving this primordial technique of photographic record, which asserts itself in the creative panorama of contemporary photography due to its unique conceptual and formal qualities, unattainable in any other way. With the realization of large-sized pinhole photographs, it is intended to enhance the identity elements and bearers of collective memories, of which the entire built heritage is part: in this perspective, it is intended to preserve the heritage, contribute to the territorial qualification and formation of publics , through artistic creation.
This project comes in the logical sequence of numerous training activities, artistic creation and research in the field of pinhole photography developed by LAC. Since 2009, large-scale images of some monuments in Lagos have been taken, resulting from the adaptation of a closed box truck to a mobile photographic camera, creating monochrome images with about 3.15m in length and 1.10m in height.
Pinhole photography, commonly known as pinhole photography, is a technique through which photographs are taken without the aid of lenses, that is, where light enters a darkroom through a small hole.