Zo Damage 6/17/22 Zo Damage 6/17/22

Camera installation

The first video is of an exhibition-style installation of cameras used and built to create projects for MFA Studio 1 , Assignment 2, the second shows experimenting with installation presentation of pinhole cameras constructed for the MFA Studio project.

Keywords

Studio 1, Camera installation, Lomography, Large format, 35mm, Pinhole, DIY pinhole

Bibliography

Damage, Zo. 2022. “Installation of cameras”. Zo Damage. June 17, 2022. YouTube video, 01:35. https://youtu.be/Coc8hPJ_ajM.

Zo Damage 5/2/22 Zo Damage 5/2/22

Diana 35mm hack, pinhole and liquid emulsion

Diana F+ 35mm hack

Medium format (120mm film) pinhole

Keywords

Studio 1, Diana, 35mm hack, Lomography, Pinhole, 120mm

Bibliography

ESMONDSIT. 2011. "Lomography - A Proper 35 Mm Film Mod For The Diana F+". Lomography. https://www.lomography.com/magazine/99621-a-proper-35-mm-film-mod-for-the-diana-f.

Zo Damage 4/26/22 Zo Damage 4/26/22

S1 Week 3: Pinhole and Diana

Medium format lomo

Long exposure pinhole paper negatives

**Figure 3.** Scan of paper negative captured with an exposure of four days using my handmade Ilford 5x7” paper box pinhole camera

**Figure 4.** Digitally inverted scan of paper negative captured with an exposure of four days using my handmade Ilford 5x7” paper box pinhole camera

**Figure 5.** Scan of paper negative captured with an exposure of four days using my handmade coffee can pinhole camera

**Figure 6.** Digitally inverted scan of paper negative captured with an exposure of four days using my handmade coffee can pinhole camera

**Figure 7.** Scan of coffee can pinhole camera solarised paper negative (three day exposure)

**Figure 8.** Digitally inverted scan of coffee can pinhole camera solarised paper negative (three day exposure)

4x5 pinhole paper positives

**Figure 11.** Scan of paper negative captured with Ilford 5x7” paper box pinhole camera

**Figure 12.** Digitally inverted scan of paper negative captured with Ilford 5x7” paper box pinhole camera

Keywords

Studio 1, Week 3, Pinhole photography, Lomography, 120mm, 35mm, Paper negative, Solarising, Darkroom

Bibliography

PLASTICPOPSICLE. 2013. "Lomography - 6 Must-Try Tips For The Diana F+". Lomography. https://www.lomography.com/magazine/252635-6-must-try-tips-for-the-diana-f-plus.

Zo Damage 4/18/22 Zo Damage 4/18/22

S1 Week 1: Diana and AE1

**Figure 1a.** Untitled (Docklands – full sequence), 2022, scan of 120mm negative — Photographed 15 April 2022, Week 01

**Figure 1b.** Untitled (Docklands – partial sequence 1), 2022, scan of 120mm negative — Photographed 15 April 2022, Week 01

**Figure 1c.** Untitled (Docklands – partial sequence 2), 2022, scan of 120mm negative — Photographed 15 April 2022, Week 01

**Figure 2.** Untitled (Docklands), 2022, scan of 120mm negative — Photographed 15 April 2022, Week 01

**Figure 3.** Untitled (Arts House), 2022, scan of 120mm negative — Photographed 15 April 2022, Week 01

**Figure 4.** Untitled (Arts House), 2022, scan of 35mm negative — Photographed 17 April 2022, Week 01

**Figure 5.** Untitled (CBD), 2022, scan of 35mm negative — Photographed 17 April 2022, Week 01

**Figure 6.** Untitled (CBD), 2022, scan of 35mm negative — Photographed 17 April 2022, Week 01

**Figure 7.** Untitled (CBD), 2022, scan of 35mm negative — Photographed 17 April 2022, Week 01

Keywords

Homework, Week 01, Lomography

Zo Damage 4/13/22 Zo Damage 4/13/22

Reflection

Today's supervisor meeting was very productive, with many breakthroughs. Dom followed up with an email outlining what was discussed and provided me with a plan of action for the rest of this semester.

My studio-based research was indeed prompted, or clarified, by the "Dinner Party" exercise, the outcome of which, as outlined in Dom's meeting debrief below, is in "pivoting the camera inwards" to reflect on my own life, surroundings and my humanity including mental and physical states.

The research includes Kintsugi and Wabi-Sabi aesthetics and philosophical theory in acknowledging fragments, fissures and the displaced with newfound beauty. The work intends to reinterpret what is perceived as broken as 'whole' – embracing how decay and time shape space, environment and existence.

The proposed equipment and method embrace and foster the unpredictable. This includes using a broken 35mm camera with a shutter that jams and slips on the reel producing fragmented images and novel gestalts. The pinhole camera epitomises unpredictability as there is no viewfinder or mechanisms to show or create any ‘settings’ – for example, exposure times are based on an educated guess.

Email from Dom

So big news today, something for you, something about you, not facing outwards but just pivoting to point the camera inwards in a more overt/deliberate way. In Zo’s words, ‘my life, my surrounds, my humanity’.

Rules

Kintugi, we are repairing and treasuring the broken and imperfect.
Wabi Sabi, we are embracing decay, time, aging and way it shapes things.
We are handicapping ourselves, we are using tools that won’t give us the ‘perfect’ photo – pinhole camera, Diana F, Broken SLR.
Pinhole cameras are key, it may be that we become interested in the object itself and consider how it’s size, design, or placement may become a vector in the project too.
Note: the pinhole and the broken SLR must be ‘performed’ and we cannot know what they might produce until developing – this is an important element of these processes.

Tone words (themes if you like)

Energy
Rhythm
No truth
ASKEW – ‘nothing is rigid, particularly me’

And to get us loose, we are going to MAKE ONE COMPLETE ARTWORK EVERYWEEK FOR THE REMAINING 4 WEEKS OF SEMESTER.

Keywords

Kintsugi, Wabi Sabi, Pinhole photography, Lomography, Broken SLR