Pinhole photography is making photographs with only a small hole, no lens is involved. The exposures are long compared to lensed photography, and tend to push the photographer into more abstract concepts. Some people make their own cameras, or adapt parts from other cameras, or buy cameras made for the purpose. Most pinhole photos are made over the course of seconds or even minutes, not fractions of a second as with a typical camera or smartphone.

My philosophy of pinhole is to try to make images that couldn't be made, or easily made, with a lens. There is little point in pinhole photography unless you can capture an aspect of what makes the pinhole genre interesting. For me, it's the combination of static elements and motion, ghosts, expected and unexpected phenomena such as flare from the sun. My pinhole photos are made with a variety of "cameras" from a modified film cameras, to a taped-up box and a small hole.