El Pulpo Mechanico

Pinhole Project
El Pulpo Mechanico
Photograph; Digital archival print
Collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

Item description: Digital archival print made from the original paper negative. Three people posing for a photo with an octopus and seahorse art car in the Black Rock Desert.

Since 1999, a group of enthusiastic pinhole photographers has been harvesting interaction, preserving history, and challenging conventional assumptions about photography at Burning Man. Their objective is to document the people, art and events at Burning Man each year, while we teach others to explore their creativity through this hundred year old technique of pinhole photography.

Applying historic handmade technology, Pinhole Project uses 33 gallon barrels, aluminum can lenses, photo sensitive paper, and a complete wet dark room, to create striking images of the playa, an ancient lakebed in the Black Rock Desert 110 miles north of Reno, Nevada.

Website: Pinhole Project