Wayne Belger

The tools I create and work with are pinhole cameras. With pinhole photography, the same air that touches my subject can pass through the pinhole and touch the photo emulsion. There are no barriers between the two. No lenses changing and manipulating light. With pinhole what you get is an un-manipulated, true representation of a segment of light and time. The creation of a camera comes from my desire to relate to a subject. When I choose a subject I spend time studying it. Then I start visualizing how I would like a photo of the subject to look. When that’s figured out, I start on the camera stage of the project by collecting parts, artifacts and relics that relate to the subject. When I’ve gathered enough parts and feel for the subject, I start the construction of the camera. I create the cameras from Aluminum, Titanium, Tungsten, Copper, Brass, Bronze, Steel, Silver, Gold, Glass, Horn, Bone, Human Skulls, Human Organs, HIV+ Blood and relics all designed to be the sacred bridge of a communion offering between myself and the subject. All to witness and be a tool of creation and decay presented by the author light and time.

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