Camara Obscura
Przemek Zajfert/Burkhard Walther
Stuttgart/Germany

www.gallery-merid.com
info@gallery-merid.com

Gallery Merid
Gutbrodstr. 42
70193 Stuttgart
Germany

Camera Obscura 1-00 is a worldwide project in which two holes of a twin-holed pinhole camera are being auctioned simultaneously on Ebay every week. The highest bidders in each case receive one after the other a pinhole camera loaded with a piece of unexposed sheet of 5x7 Inch b/w film. They punch a hole with the enclosed needle and expose their own photograph in turn. Because of the minimal distance between the two holes the two photos overlap partly, so that a joint picture emerges, created by two people in different parts of the world. In the course of time a sort of photographic global puzzle will emerge - one continuous series of parallel exposures. All participants will receive by post an actual sized print of the partially superimposed photo which they made. At a later date the cameras will be displayed together with the parallel exposures in a permanent exhibition in the Galerie Merid in Stuttgart. They will also be published on the Internet site of the project.