The following is a list of homemade pinhole cameras, which I
commonly use in my work:
1. Chinese food delivery box camera (or the Ja-jang myeon box camera): 47 x 50 x 23 cm, 12 pinholes, produces 12 separate images
2. Earl Grey tea tin camera: 9.5 x 9.5 x 9 cm, 2 pinholes, produces a single image.
3. Quaker Oats™ box camera: 11.5 x 10 cm, 1 pinhole, produces a single image
4. Lucky Strike™ limited edition tin cigarette box cameras (can easily fit into back pant’s pocket for easy transport): 9 x 6 x 2.5 cm, 1 pinhole, produces a single image
Pinhole apartment: view from apartment window / 2004
This photo was taken with the Earl Grey tea tin camera.
A photograph of a special camera-subject relationship
Chinese food delivery leftovers 2007 / 40 x 45 cm
This work is an experiment in documenting the connection between record and recorder; where the subject of this photograph directly refers to the camera’s original function.
The series of images was taken by the CDB pinhole camera during a 16-minute, simultaneous 12-frame exposure. The camera, is actually a converted Chinese food delivery box. This delivery box is a common sight in Korea, usually seen carried by young men on mopeds as they recklessly speed toward their destinations. The subject of the photograph is the leftovers of the very food that is normally carried within this type of delivery box.