I started treating photography as an-
The pinhole camera is the starting
other serious occupation about 3 years
point of photography history. What I like
ago. At that time, I got an old camera -
most about it is that it requires longer
Asahi Pentax KX and a few manual focus
exposure time. Compared to other mod-
lenses from my grandfather. The old
ern cameras which can finish a perfect
equipment introduced me to a totally
shot in one-sixtieth of a second, it's very
different, new world – a way to discover
different. You can actually observe and
the world we live in everyday, but we
see that the film, which is the object it-
never actually see, a way to freeze the
self, is absorbing the environment onto
scenes between the reality and unreali-
its surface. The camera transforms the
ty. I am still deeply fascinated by this.
huge scale of a scene into this small
In the end of 2010, I started to combine my hobby - photography - and my profession - 3D modeling - together. I
scale of a vessel. Not from 3D to 2D, but 3D to 3D. Thus, it isn't a reduction but rather a translation.
was wondering, what if I make 3D ob-
As I am taking photo with 3D ob-
jects a film and use it to take photos,
jects, my cameras have to be changed
will the shape of the objects and the
as well. In order to do the 360-degree
pictures begin to effect each other? Will
exposure, I need to set 4 pinholes on
the objects start talking and tell us the
each side of the camera. Every pinhole
stories it experienced?
is made of metal foil, and the diameter
In order to take photos with threedimensional objects, I chose two very old techniques, pinhole camera and liquid light. Although both of them are not easy to control, and they all need complicate preparations, they were indeed the straightest way to achieve my aim making the object become light sensitive, and project image onto it.
is exactly 0.5mm. In other words, after converting into the size of aperture, it's very often smaller than f/200. Because the ISO of the liquid light is only 6, the long exposure is very necessary. From few minutes to 7 hours, I always meter the light and consider the change of light and weather. Sometime, I even need to photo three or four times to get