Just as something completely different, I spent yesterday on a ‘make your own 10×8 pinhole camera’ workshop at Liverpool’s new Open Eye gallery, organised by Redeye. For me the whole pinhole thing – like much of lo-fi camera fashion – can sometimes veer into the territory of naffness, but I loved Tom Hunter’s use of the technique in his Prayer Places and Bathing Places series, and I’ve always quite fancied having a go. Whether I have the patience to really experiment with the technique – yesterday’s exposures were in the order of 10-15 minutes in the freezing cold – or the money to play about with 5×4 or 10×8 negs which cost a few quid each even before processing, only time will tell. An interesting day though.