Tutorial with Jon

As this was my last tutorial until I get back from Finland I found it very motivating. It highlighted all of the aspects that I need to focus on next term, which I knew I had to do, I just needed to focus my attention on it. Next term I should explore what the relationship is between the camera, the environment being photographed and the photograph. This is somehting I tried to do for my last exhibition, where I photographed the street outside the exhibiton yet the wheelie bin had little relevance to this. A way to help with this is to maybe answer these questions when looking at other pinhole artists work.
- Is the subject of the photograph important?
- How does this relate to the process of pinhole photography?
- How are the camera, photograph and environment related?

Answering these questions when lookin at other artists work may help me to see where my exploration of pinhole photography is going. Hopefully, with this the context of my work will appear. It was suggested in my tutorial that I should investigate site-specific installations, media-archeology, optical illusion and early film. With specific direction towards, Siegfried Zielinkski Audiovisions and Erkki Huhtamo's work.

Another, suggestion by Jon was to think about how much information Igive to the veiwer in the exhibition. This is something I wasn't going to do as I quite like the obscurity of the photograph and camera, yet as it had been brought to my attention maybe it is something I need to think about. Should I make it obvious that it is a pinhole camera? Jon also suggested that I should think about maybe placing the image back into the camera, which is something that I had never considered. But, this could be an intersting concept as you will see the image in the camera where it was created.