Pinhole Photography Workshop with Carla Shapiro

Pinhole Photography Workshop with Carla Shapiro

$ 10
Sat, Sep 12, 2026 • 10:00 AM—12:00 PM

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Cost of Admission: $10 for non-members; free for members. Registration is required. This is an in person event. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT In this hands-on class you will learn how to transform your digital camera into a pinhole camera. You will see inspiring examples of successful pinhole photography, modify your camera, and head out to make pinhole images. We will share and discuss the photographs we make together throughout the workshop. Just bring your digital camera and all other supplies will be provided. Carla Shapiro was born in Manhattan and received a BFA in design from Syracuse University. She is now a photographer and educator based in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York. Her photographic projects explore loss and longing, memory and nostalgia, womanhood and aging. She employs the use of alternative equipment, processes, and materials, such as platinum printing, the wet-plate collodion process and pinhole and Holga cameras. She was an Associate Professor in the graduate department at Pratt Institute. She has received many notable awards, including two Arts Mid-Hudson Arts and Culture grants,The New York Council for the Arts and three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. She is in permanent collections in the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, in Chicago, The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The New York Public Library and Center for Photography at Woodstock.

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