The camera obscura will also be a major focus for the planned education programme, allowing both local schoolchildren and adults to explore the concept of pinhole photography further. Graphic design degree students from Colchester Institute have already been involved with the exhibition, designing posters and the exhibition catalogue. Other events planned around the exhibition include a talk by Gina Glover, Founder-Director of the Photofusion Gallery, who received the Year of the Artist Award last year to develop her work with psychiatric patients using pinhole photography. She will be speaking on 'Photography, Creativity and the Mind' in the University gallery on Wednesday 9 May at 2.30pm. There will also be a one-day pinhole workshop at Colchester Institute on 12 May led by Bob Cathmoir, a photographer and former tutor at the Institute, giving people the opportunity to make their own pinhole cameras and pinhole images.
Admission is free.
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