The Camera Obscura Project brings together an international group of artists and other researchers interested in cameras obscura, related optical phenomenon and the meeting places of: art and science, cultural and wilderness settings, learning and play. Summer solstice, 2015, saw Dawson City, Yukon, as the setting for the Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival. 2016 will see further exhibitions and off-site projects with the Kamloops Art Gallery and the University of Lethbridge’s Art Gallery. With funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada the Project is based at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, B.C.
UPCOMING in AUGUST 2016 --
THE PRAIRIE SUN PROJECT: One day performance with workshops at the University of Lethbridge Coutts Centre for Western Canadian Heritage
THE MIDNIGHT SUN CAMERA OBSCURA PROJECT: Exhibition at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
HOLLY WARD
The Pavilion, Wood, metal, plastic, 22'x22'x22', 2009-Ongoing
MIKE YUHASZ
Great North Development Group, Yukon River Bridge, handheld stereoscopic viewer, 2004
MIKE YUHASZ
Great North Development Group, Yukon River Bridge, 35mm transparency viewed through handheld stereoscopic viewer, 2004
ERNIE KROEGER
Elegy for My Father (detail), Camera with open lens, transparency and light bulb, 6”x3½”x4”, 2005
DONALD LAWRENCE
Panoramic Camera Obscura, 1987
DONALD LAWRENCE
Kayak/Camera-Obscura (a.k.a. Kepler's Klepper), 2011
HOLLY WARD
Radical Rupture, Video Installation, Dimensions Variable, 2008
DONALD LAWRENCE
Panoramic Camera Obscura, 1987
DONALD LAWRENCE
One Eye Folly, 2008
DONALD LAWRENCE
One Eye Folly, 2008
DIANNE BOS
Milkyway by Candle Light, 1999
DONALD LAWRENCE
Tent Camera Obscura, 2011
DONALD LAWRENCE
Panoramic Camera Obscura, 1987
DIANNE BOS
Maquette on the street in Dawson City, Yukon
Painting the Camera Obscura
Dawson City, 2012
Research assistant Ryland Fortie with tent camera obscura in Dawson City, Yukon, 2014.
Research assistant Dion Fortie at the Cliff House Camera Obscura, San Francisco, 2014.
DONALD LAWRENCE
One Eye Folly, preparatory sketch, 2008
BOB JICKLING
Canoedio, 2010
BOB JICKLING
Canoedio, 2010
PETRAN KOCKELKOREN
Onderdendam, 2014
DONALD LAWRENCE
Tent Camera Obscura, Coimbra, Portugal, 2011
DONALD LAWRENCE
Quidi Vidi Camera Obscura, preparatory sketch, 2014
HOLLY WARD
Urras, silkscreen on card, 82cmx82cm, 2013
CARSTEN WIRTH
2014
LEA BUCKNELL
Camera Obscura, Wreck City, Calgary, AB, 2013
The Camera Obscura Project brings together an international group of artists and other researchers interested in cameras obscura, related optical phenomenon and the meeting places of: art and science, cultural and wilderness settings, learning and play. With funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada the Project is based at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, B.C.