#47 Nicole Small: Vision/Experimentation

Self-portrait artist, studio portrait photographer, pinhole enthusiast, camera builder and enthusiastically inquisitive about all things photographic sums up today’s guest.
 
Based in Montreal, Canada Nicole loves nothing more than to be out making (usually) large format pinhole self-portraits with cameras she builds herself, usually from foam core and tape – it’s all about the love of creating the image.
 
Things we chatted about on the show:
 
Using a pinhole camera for portraits with a longer “focal length” triggered an interesting conversation. There are some excellent resources including the Mr Pinhole site which is invaluable if you are thinking of making your own pinhole portrait camera.
 http://mrpinhole.com/
 
Friend of the show Jason Lane came up a few times as Nicole, Erik and Andrew are all trying to get to grips with his wonderful J Lane dry plates.
https://www.pictoriographica.com/
 
Go to Jason’s website for useful info on using the plates under differing lighting conditions.
 
We go into some discussions about reversal processing, Nicole uses potassium dichromate bleach followed by exposure to light then fixing and second development.
Here is an on line discussion link.
https://photosensitive.ca/bw-reversal-processing-notes/
 
Hear more of Nicole’s ideas and camera building info on the excellent home made camera podcast.
http://homemadecamera.com/e50-nicole-small/
 
 
Find out more about the life and works of Andre Kertesz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Kert%C3%A9sz
 
Erik once again recommended Alan Green’s book for all things camera building and more.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Primitive-Photography-Cameras-Calotypes-Alternative/dp/0240804619/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
 
 
Nicole’s links
https://www.facebook.com/nicole.small.77
 
https://www.instagram.com/nicolesmall_oneonone/
 
 
 
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