Justin Quinnell




    • Justin Quinnell is a 52 year old photographer from Bristol, he has travelled the world taking pictures with a pinhole camera placed inside his mouth. He has captured almost every moment of his life, from a trip to the dentist to visiting Sydney Opera House, he even tried to capture a photo of both of his children being born, but neither photo came out. 

     When he was 4 he had several operations on his eyes. He had a eye patch with a small hole to see through like a pinhole. He was head of the photography department in his area of Bristol, the kids couldn’t afford cameras, but could afford coke can every day so he got them to make cameras out of their drink cans and got exicted about pinhole cameras himslef.

    He was aked in an interview with  Lomography What is it about Pinhole Photography which most fascinates you?
    and he answered, 
    "There is no view finder, it clashes art and science after a 150 year schism, a lot happens in pre-visualising the images, elements of time, astronomy, wonder etc. etc. etc. (This is what I go on about for hours in my lectures!). It’s also cheap, and it’s anti-commercial. I am involved with the Green Party and was getting disillusioned with photography and the amount of destruction it can cause – pin-holing gets around this."

     The Royal Crescent – Bath, was one of his first successful colour images taken in 1991 which he had to wait for 4 days till the film was processed. 
     

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