
How to take a photograph with a "pinhole" camera: a workshop with Harry Moore
17 - 18 August, 10am - 4pm
- Kerry Writers' Museum
- Kerry Writers' Museum @ 24 The Square, Listowel, Co. Kerry.
- V31 RD93
- Co. Kerry
Do you want to take a photograph with a "pinhole" camera?
Kerry Writers' Museum celebrates photography in its most elemental form with a workshop by Harry Moore, an inspirational "artivist" and a leading exponent of pinhole photography in Ireland.
The pinhole camera is the ancestor of box cameras that became popular from the 1870s onwards, the most famous being the "Brownie" that Kodak introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. Generations of Irish people used box cameras to create memories that intersect the personal, social and historical stories of a community and the same cameras are at the centre of an extraordinary revival in analogue photography.
The workshop will take place over two days and will give participants hands on experience in taking and printing photographs using a "pinhole" camera, a miniature version of the "camera obscura" that Kerry Writers' Museum developed in 2023 as part of a celebration of film making in and around Listowel.
8 places, all materials provided. Advance booking essential.
MEET THE ARTIST:
Places on the workshop are very limited so Kerry Writers' Museum has organised an event at which Harry Moore will meet the public and discuss his work as a pinhole photographer. The event is scheduled for Saturday 17 August at 5pm and everyone is welcome.
[Photo: Harry Moore, self-portrait taken with a pinhole camera (© Harry Moore).]
RELATED EVENTS INCLUDE:
Kerry Writers' Museum contributes to Heritage Week with an exciting programme of workshops, screenings and talks that explore the heritage value of film and digital media used to generate personal and community memories and networks.
Daily screenings hosted by filmmakers will celebrate a vibrant and diverse movement in storytelling-in-film that has a long history in North Kerry; beginning with travelling road shows in the 1920s and continuing at the cutting edge of Irish art and climate activism.
A workshop in "pinhole" photography recaptures the extraordinary heritage of the camera obscura.
Musical heritage features in a short film about a trip to the Fleadh Nua in Ennis in 1974. Members of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann reconnect with the fleadh's legacy and perform a new musical accompaniment.
The Barna Way Organic Farm is the venue for an exploration of a new generation of community filmmakers.
We celebrate the art of cinema with the screening of a short film of the butchering of a pig in Kissane's farmyard in 1978.
Community storytelling - the most intangible of heritage assets - is explored through a film shot in Moyvane, shown in London and distributed though community networks that connected London, Manchester and north Kerry.
The week ends with workshops in analogue filmmaking and collection management/sharing for anyone who has film and digital media at home.
Kerry Writers' Museum acknowledges the support of the Heritage Council, the Listowel Duagh Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and the department of Media Studies, Maynooth University.
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Event Type
Heritage Council Grant
This event is part of a project supported under the Heritage Council's grants programme in 2024