pinhole camera

I've got two new assignments to do. One is studio based and the other titled ''You're Having A Laugh'' is based on surrealism. I am looking forward to seeing what I can come up with for these assignments, but right now I think I have some mental artist block and it is not fun. I cannot think of anything.

Anyway.. to talk about what this post is actually about; pinhole camera.

For ages I had wanted to try out using a pinhole camera to produce photographs but never had the opportunity until a few weeks ago in college. As part of an assignment, we were asked to visually record using different methods e.g photograms, chemograms, cyanotypes. This gave me the perfect opportunity to use a pinhole camera. I haven't got a lot to say about pinhole, only that I am totally and utterly in love and obsessed with it and I wish I could use it all of the time. I am truly fascinated by it, and I still haven't fully got my head around how a square box can produce a photograph with such detail? How does that tiny little hole on the side of a wooden box capture the outside world like that? I think because I am so familiar with using digital or analogue, such a simple method like this slightly confuses me? In fact I don't think I will ever fully understand it.

The camera I used:

Some of the photographs I produced: