Lego lockdown camera
The LEGO lockdown camera was conceived as a way of representing the strangeness of the Covid-19 lockdown. As I write we’ve spent 40 days inside, with occasional forays to the shops or for dog walks. I had intended to get this finished for World Pinhole Day, which was last weekend, but didn’t quite get it together on time. The LEGO lockdown camera is basically a camera obscura. I added a viewing portal through which the lens of a digital camera can look (I used a Fuji X30 with macro mode enabled). So, in the same way that you could turn a room into a camera obscura by blacking out the windows and photographing the inside, you can photograph the inside of this camera and its little LEGO family. Whatever the pinhole is pointed at is projected onto the walls of their tiny room. ...