Today is the
Octave of Easter for 2019. This year it coincides with
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPP Day) which is an unofficial holiday that has always been observed the last Sunday in April. A holiday-themed
web-page explains that
WPP Day aims
"to encourage people to pick up pinhole photography as a hobby and profession, and to share their techniques and pictures with the pinhole photography community."
I must confess that while I'm very familiar with the celebrations surrounding the Octave of Easter, I had not heard of
WPP Day. It is somewhat odd that I had no idea about this event. The main reason that any lack of knowedge re this occasion is odd is because for a few years I worked with various pin-hole cameras — and created a number of
black and white photographs from them — which I developed and printed myself.
My entire Black and White Collection has been included in gallery exhibitions in Manhattan. One of those images is titled,
Thanksgiving In Riverdale (a copy of it can be seen in the image below).
This photograph won an award (placement in a book,
Photo-Glaz) in a competition juried by the late photographer, Roy De Carava.
Other ones,
Cocktails and Engaging Conversation as well as
Portrait of Contemplation (copies seen in the next set of images)...
...are featured in a literary magazine known as,
Returning Woman. Moreover, my photograph,
Sophia, (which can be seen in the next picture) and my process used in creating it was discussed (at length) in an interview given by
Karen Lewis, on a WBAI radio program called
The Al Lewis Show.
It
be heard via my web-site where you will also find more of my black and white images,
pin-hole and non pinhole.
The site is called
patriciayoungquist.com and was created by
Chris Deatherage. He also formatted and edited my three volume book series,
Words In Our Beak.
Moreover, my three volume book series
Words In Our Beak includes hundreds of images of flora and fauna.
The goal of these books is to open readers to a simple understanding of the winged world and their environment. Set in a rooftop urban garden (mine) in New York City, my story is told in the voice of Cam, a female cardinal, who visits it. These books are directed to children and adults who are curious about birds (as well as gardening) want to learn about these topics from a unique perspective.
But getting back to a topic related to
WWPD, in addition to my creating black and white photos with pin-hole cameras; I also have created ones which are
kaleidoscopic in nature...
