Two years ago, I asked the Sunny Arms artists to expose a pinhole camera from their windows, looking out on to our view of the industrial area of Seattle. The exposure was to be from Solstice to Equinox, ninety days. The first set of exposures were spectacular and were chosen to be displayed on a Metro bus shelter, the location of which should be announced any day. Over the next two years, the Sunny Arms artists exposed pinhole cameras during all four seasons. The final season is just now finished and we now have about 120 images from 30 cameras exposed over the last two years. I did not know whether the cameras would portray the differences in the seasons. I did know that they would show the trail of the sun as it crossed the sky. I discovered many things during this project: that our views from all the studios were quite beautiful, that the change in the season mattered, that each image was unique. I am in the process of producing a book which will highlight all the seasons and all the artists who participated. The project is about gathering time, tending the cameras as they expose and also most importantly about patience.
The images here from different seasons. Many more images to come. To see more about the project, go to my website and read about the two blog posts on the project there: http://www.janetneuhauser.com/out-there-long-exposure-pinhole-photography-from-the-sunny-arms/ and http://www.janetneuhauser.com/out-there-an-update/