Steve Irvine 

Ontario

One of my lifelong interests has been photography. I spend almost as much time with it as I do with pottery. It only seems natural that the two passions should come together, and these ceramic cameras are the result.

These are fully functional pinhole cameras. They have no lens, light meter, viewfinder, or automatic shutter, and yet they can produce gallery quality images. I use black and white photo paper in them for the negatives. The negatives are either 4 x 5 inches, or 5 x 8 inches.

Pinhole camera photography offers creative possibilities that can't be duplicated with high tech cameras. There is the added satisfaction of making your own camera from scratch. I have a separate website that is just about my pinhole camera photography. As well, I have a step by step section that shows how to make a ceramic camera.