This is a pinhole photograph, photographed by Justin Quinnell. Justin Quinnell is a UK pinhole photographer began his career when he picked up a camera at the age of 11 he then went on to completing a degree in fine art, Next he began teaching young people photography but it was soon proven harder than he thought because the kids couldn’t afford regular cameras but he'd seen them come in with coke cans from time to time so he decided to first make a camera out of that which proved successful as the youth were exited it worked and were asking if they could take their cameras home. Justin particularly loves pinhole photography because of the excitement of not knowing how the image is going to turn out he compares it to life and says "if you knew what was going to happen tomorrow you might as well top yourself". Justin has experimented with a range of different objects to make his pinhole cameras from small ones to do the mouthpiece pinholes to large wheelie bin cameras to take pictures of whole scenery.
This Pinhole Photography is called 'Rosa mouthpiece', Rosa is Justin's daughter and judging by recent photographs of her I would say this picture was taking about 4 years ago.
Like I mentioned earlier mouthpiece cameras like this one were taken with a small camera that fits inside the mouth and he placed his daughter in front of him whilst opening his mouth. This made the picture come out on a small piece of film which he later expanded.
I have chosen to analyse this piece of work because in my opinion its very unusual to contrast a baby with an open mouth almost like he’s eating her which I’m sure is not the case, but this photograph also stands out because its more personal in some respect most of his photographs are of local scenery whilst this one displays his child which makes it more unique to his other pieces.
To understand Justin Quinnell work deeper I watched this video which was posted on his website:
I think this piece maybe does have a deeper meaning that is that he is getting to know his daughter and is also introducing her to his career what he does and then he is including her in it so it could be showing us how he is building a relationship with his daughter. The title of the piece doesn’t really inform us of what the piece is about of whose baby it is in the piece but I suppose a simple title intrigues most people to then go and do some independent research on Justin whereby they discover more about the piece.
To make this piece I believe a great amount of skill went into it because he had to leave his mouth open for quite a while without shaking for the image to be captured he also had to hold his daughter and babies are quite fidgety so this also took a great amount of skill.
The artist uses quite dark colours for this image but then contrasts it with putting bright pale colours for his daughter this altogether makes the piece look like a photograph taken from a regular camera. I think tone is the most important formal element in this piece because there are quite a lot of dark areas as a pose to brighter ones.
My first reaction to this piece was how did he do it? Because I didn’t know it was possible to create a pinhole camera small enough to fit inside the mouth, the work has inspire me to try different things with a pinhole camera and not just capture pictures of the outside world.
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