Image Credit: Claire Conroy, caravan camera obscura, exterior and interior view. Photography Kate Holmes.
Caravan Camera Obscura
A pinhole camera, mobile darkroom, studio and camera obscura built inside a 1950s caravan.
I transformed the caravan into a working photographic studio, using its interior as a camera obscura and darkroom. The structure allows me to make photographs directly onto light-sensitive photographic paper, creating large-scale paper negatives through long exposures and developing them on site.
The caravan has become an ongoing part of my photographic practice — a mobile space for making, experimenting, teaching and engaging with people and place. It has travelled to exhibitions, residencies and community projects, functioning both as a photographic instrument and as a space for encounters around the process of image-making.
Rather than separating the camera from the finished photograph, the caravan makes the process itself visible. The slow act of exposure, development and viewing becomes part of the work.
Writing
Process — Claire Conroy
Artist Profile, Issue 72: An exploration of my photographic processes, including the caravan camera obscura and my material approach to analogue image-making.