A camera obscura is a very simple device. Consisting of a dark chamber, with only a pinhole to let light in, it focuses an image on its inside surface. If you want to take a permanent copy, it’s as ...

is not your ordinary photographer walking around with a camera going “click!” He is an artificer of photographic images who, in his best-known work, uses a technology that actually predates the ...

Most readers will have some idea of how a camera works, with a lens placed in front of a piece of film or an electronic sensor, and the distance between the two adjusted until the images is in focus.