Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

Fourth Annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day will be 25 April 2004.

Trento, Italia, January, 2004 - The Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day Coordinating

Team announces the fourth annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, to be celebrated

all over the world on Sunday, 25 April 2004.

People throughout the world are invited to make a pinhole photograph during these

twenty-four hours. Each author will be able to submit an image to the unique and

international WPPD gallery at www.pinholeday.org.

This event is absolutely popular, egalitarian and open to anybody, anywhere in all world's

regions. All lovers of lensless photography, as well as people who have never tried this

creative and enjoyable technique, are encouraged to participate.

Pinhole photographs are made without lenses, using a tiny hole as the image-forming

device. Photographs are made with simple and inexpensive tools: from shoeboxes and

tomato tins to pinholes fitted on regular cameras. A world of pure creativity, a tender and

joyful approach to photography, and the discovery of the emotion and the wonder of the

photographic action itself, far from the excessive and oppressive power of extreme

technology, await the pinhole photographer.

The WPPD web exhibition of 2001 showed 291 pictures by pinhole photographers from

24 nations, the 2002 exhibition contained 903 photographs from 35 nations; in 2003,

1082 pinhole photographers from 43 nations participated.

On 25 April 2004 there will be numerous events all over the world dedicated to the

pinhole photography: meetings, lectures, workshops and informal gatherings to celebrate

the Fourth Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day and to increase the former editions'

success.

WPPD is the result of the work of a group of volunteers from across the globe. Their

combined efforts and individual skills contribute to make this event an ever-growing

success, allowing more and more people to discover the beauty and mysteries of pinhole

photography.

For further and more detailed information about WPPD4 visit the dedicated web site at

www.pinholeday.org.

Coordinating Team (2004)

Tom Miller (USA - team leader)

Paolo Aldi (Italia)

Zernike Au (Hong Kong)

Peter Bengtsen (Danmark)

Jean Daubas (France)

Guy Glorieux (Canada)

Gregg Kemp (USA)

Edward Levinson (Japan)

Guillermo Penate (Canada)

Rosanne Stutts (USA)