MAPh | MAPh School holiday program | Make your own camera – pinhole camera workshop with Shea Kirk

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MAPh School holiday program | Make your own camera – pinhole camera workshop with Shea Kirk

16 April 2023

Sunday 16 April

1:00 pm- 3:30pm

Have you ever wondered how cameras work? Join artist Shea Kirk in this DIY workshop to make your very own camera from scratch! You will be guided through the process of creating a simple pinhole camera from recycled materials, to make a unique photographic negative. Go home with a miniature camera loaded and ready to make a solargraph – a multi-day long exposure tracking the movements of the sun over a period of time. Shea will also bring some of the cameras he has built over the years for a visually compelling show & tell. This is a wonderful hands-on opportunity to experience the magic of analogue photography from a skilled educator and artist. Suitable for ages 10-16 years.

Places limited (25 max)

Booking required

Cost $25

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Shea Kirk is a Melbourne-based contemporary artist working with traditional photographic methods and techniques. He won the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020 Art Handlers’ Award, received Honourable Mention Bowness Photography Prize (2021), was Highly Commended Olive Cotton Award (2021), has been shortlisted for prizes including Bowness Photography Prize (2020 & 2022); Olive Cotton Award (2019); National Photographic Portrait Prize (2019 & 2022); Head On Portrait Prize (2018, 2019, 2021 & 2022); Photo Collective Stories (2021), and has participated in a number of exhibitions across Australia. He has exhibited selections from an ongoing portrait series titled Vantages at Centre for Contemporary Photography (2019) and Daine Singer for PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography (2021). Shea’s work is currently on exhibition in 100 Faces at MAPh.

Image: Shea KIRK Pinhole camera portrait. Courtesy of the artist.

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We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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