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The Fantastical Machines of Wayne Martin Belger
Photo Technique, September/October 2012
By Robert Hirsch
Enter into a darkroom and make a small round hole in the window shade that looks out onto a bright outside scene.
Wayne is a photography-based installation artist whose exhibitions consist of both the hand-made camera and photographs produced by the camera.
Hold a piece of translucent paper 6-12 inches from the hole and you will see what is outside the window. This optical phenomenon, which has been known since ancient times, provides the basis for making pinhole (camera) photographs.
Wayne Martin Belger’s philosophical approach to his subjects utilizes this phenomenon to build fantastical handmade pinhole cameras, which he then operates to create his images.
Robert Hirsch: How did you get involved in photography?
Wayne Martin Belger: In the mid-1990s a good friend, who is an automotive photographer, was working with a flimsy pinhole camera so I made him one out of aircraft aluminum and stainless steel.
And because all the tools I make are extensions of myself, it also had ins