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  • ILAN WOLFF
  • Biography
  • Photo gallery
    • Early work
    • Urban landscape
    • Natural landscape
    • The Holy Land
    • Camera Obscura in Paris
    • Portfolio 1996
    • Big cities
    • Creation
    • The Four Elements
    • Lunagram
    • People
    • Details
    • Abstract
  • Videos
  • Contact
  • WORKSHOPS
    • Workshops mit Flüchtlingsschülern
    • klassisch workshops
    • Themen -Workshop
    • Weekend Workshop
    • EQUIPMENT
    • AFTER WORK
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Since 1981 Ilan Wolff has specialised in creating photographs using the Camera Obscura technique with cameras made from old boxes or cans. Nowadays he mainly uses his van and ordinary room interiors to create large images.

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People, Pinhole camera

People, Pinhole camera: 

It's not easy to convince people to be photographed with a pinhole camera. Posing for some long minutes in front of a box makes most of them nervous, especially in front of the public outdoors in a street or square for example. 

I discovered that sometimes the long exposure time can "bring out" some interior character of the person who was photographed. 

[Photographing outdoors and having contact with people while observing me (curious to what I'm doing and what is that box for ?….) gives me some enjoyment as compensation for the long hours developing in my darkroom all by myself.] this section was not in the copy sent by Ilan but I have edited it anyway.

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  • ILAN WOLFF
  • Biography
  • Photo gallery
    • Early work
    • Urban landscape
    • Natural landscape
    • The Holy Land
    • Camera Obscura in Paris
    • Portfolio 1996
    • Big cities
    • Creation
    • The Four Elements
    • Lunagram
    • People
    • Details
    • Abstract
  • Videos
  • Contact
  • WORKSHOPS
    • Workshops mit Flüchtlingsschülern
    • klassisch workshops
    • Themen -Workshop
    • Weekend Workshop
    • EQUIPMENT
    • AFTER WORK
    • PRICE
    • INFORMATION