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El Centro Municipal Puertas de Castilla hosts today a unique exhibition of photographs in which the Israeli Ilan Wolff demonstrates his skill with pinhole photography.
In the sample collected images shot with equipment that has made himself, using from a soda can to a damn.
The artist uses the ancient technique of the darkroom since 1982 and has become one of the world's greatest experts in the field.
Involves the construction of a sealed compartment with a small hole which filters the light reflected from the outside and is projected on the piece.
The exhibition will feature both snapshots of monuments, including buildings and landscapes from around the world, which dominate the shadows and an orange tint.
The exhibition is raised in three separate parts:
'A' camera obscura ', which recreates the laboratory where the artist explains the technique to children and adults making pinhole photographs.
- A second area where there are two installations by the photographer, which are grouped several objects whose image is projected through a small hole into the dark room and can see them upside down.
"The last is a selection of the work of Israeli photographer.
The exhibition includes images, which include sites representative of Murcia, as well as landscapes, people and monuments that has portrayed this operator around the world
Wolff technology dispenses with priority given to natural and back to the origins of photography with a method that was already used by Aristotle and Da Vinci.
In 1986 he was the first pinhole photographer who was commissioned by the German magazine Stern, and in 1988, the Kodak company was awarded a scholarship for two years photographing the skyscrapers of New York.
In 1990, the French Ministry of Culture awarded him the job "Life in the Desert" about the life of the Bedouins.
In 1994 published in the special issue of the magazine Paris SWISSAIR GAZZETTA his views on the French capital.
From 1993 to present, Ilan Wolf exhibited her work while she teaches workshops in various European countries, with students investigating various possibilities for the practice and pinhole imaging on various media.
Collections where you can find his work are: the Paris National Library, Victoria & Albert Museum in London, U.S. Kodak Collection, Museum of Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The exhibition will be open until next June 5.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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