Wolf Howard Research
Wolf Howard is an English born pinhole photographer as well as a poet and Filmmaker. He was born on 7th of April 1968 in Strood Kent. He also played drums in garage and punk bands. He is one of the founders of the stuckism movement. He attended Mid Kent College. He also is a painter as well as pin hole photographer. The pin hole camera he uses is a wooden one that has no lenses or viewfinder so he estimates what the camera is aimed at. He and Billy childish founded the stuckism art movement in 1999. His work was exhibited in group exhibitions with other stuckism artist the first was a show called The Stuckism Punk Victorian. This was the first exhibition to show to just exhibit stuckism art this took place in 2004. He left the group in 2006 to pursue a solo career. He exposes his images for 40 seconds to 5 mins. He says he prefers to use pin hole cameras because he says he enjoys the simplicity of the camera. To replace the photosensitive paper he places the Camera inside A light proof bag. This stops the photosensitive paper being exposed before its ready. He also takes portraits using his pinhole camera mainly of his friend Billy Childish which come out in black and white.
This image is of a middle aged man with a styled moustache
and a warm hat. The man is also wearing a scarf and what looks like a big coat
this means the man may have been in a cold place or the weather was bad. The
image is also in black and white as that is how pinhole cameras produce there
images. The image looks like it was photographed out front of a shed or a
fence. I think this because I can see a bike on the left of the image. The
image was taken by Wolf Howard and of his friend Billy Childish. The way Wolf
Howard takes his images is with a wooden pinhole camera which he puts
photosensitive paper in the back of and the shutter is a slider which he slides
open for 40 seconds to five minutes. When the slide is opened it exposes the
photosensitive paper. Many off his images are taken in the same way as this using
the pinhole cameras. Wolf Howard’s images are most often taken in black and
white as developing colour is harder to do.
The image is of a castle and looks almost ghostly due to it
being taken with a pinhole camera. It is taken from the castle graveyard towards
the castle and looking slightly up to it. The castle is in basically in ruins
as it is an old castle there are holes all over the castle walls. It has a lot
of bright white around the grave yard ad it makes it look creepy due to it
being a graveyard. This photo was taken
with a pinhole camera in a similar way to the first one. The grave stones are the closest things to the
camera and the castle is in the background.
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