Jan Dunning
|London-based photographer Jan Dunning creates absolutely stunning, mysterious images that look like scenes from a fairy tale induced dream. Using nothing but a pinhole camera, Dunning proving again that all the fancy equipment in the world can’t make up for a good eye. Though some of her pictures are staged, many of them are simple photos taken in the countryside, drawing light to the interplay between fact and fiction and reality and imagination inherent in photography.
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Cydney said | 1 December, 2009
It’s nice to see photography that is fresh and unprocessed. I feel like many artists get caught up in the continuous changes in technology and don’t focus so much on the beauty of simple processes such as pinhole photography. Well done.