Solar Cinema in Wimbledon

Martin, an artist and photographer, has turned a tent into a temporary camera obscura for his project, entitled 'Solar Cinema', turning the lens on the historic Cannizaro Park to create remarkable real-time images of the colour, movement, light and leisure of park life in July.

'Art Works in Wimbledon' commissioned the project. Its director Martin Holman said: "Solar Cinema rolls back the story of photography to its origins, which lie in the inverted image projected by natural light on to a screen. Even in the seventeenth century, viewers suspected sorcery on seeing these extraordinary images. Later inventors discovered how to fix the image, and photography was born. But now, as the medium has moved forward to the era of easy, disposable digital image making, perhaps it is time to rediscover the original process and give photography a new lease of life."

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Image: Solar Cinema

Links

• Martin Newth
• UCL Slade School of Fine Art