2020 WPPD Poster and a bit about the event.

Over the past eighteen years, I have looked forward to the last Sunday in April.

Each year, WPPD – Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, as it is known, encourages thousands of “pinholers” to make a photograph with a pinhole camera on WPPD and submit a single image to their on-line pinhole gallery for the world to see.

WPPD is one of the things that gets many of us through the winter as we prepare for the event.

April is not always a predictable month in many parts of the world. Most places it seems, have not quite warmed up to springtime. Yet, each year, the event attracts those image-makers, both amateur and professional, to face the elements on whatever comes their way on that particular day. Every image shot for the event must have been exposed on that day.

The WPPD event is meant to be fun and creative while bringing people together from around the globe.

Pinhole is a very basic classification of photography that produces an image from nothing more than a hole in a box. There is no actual lens. Rather, the image relies on the simple fact that light from all parts of the scene travels in straight lines through a tiny opening at the front of the camera. Each ray of light produces its own point on the surface at the back of the device. In many ways, the pinhole is a magical means of making a photograph.

My first WPPD image may be the very first digital pinhole ever produced. When I worked at Kodak, I removed the lens from a digital camera and replaced it with a very tiny pinhole.

© John Neel

You can create whatever you like and shoot nearly any subject as long as the image is made with a pinhole or with a related pinhole device — such as a pinhole sieve, or a pinhole zone plate which I will discuss in follow-up postings.

Join the fun and begin to see the world in a very different light.

Here is the link to the WPPD website – Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.  

FYI—the WPPD website will not be fully active for a few weeks until the team completes the site for this year’s event. I normally jump the gun due to my own enthusiasm for creating pinhole images. 🙂

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