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Since 1981 Ilan Wolff has specialised in creating photographs using the Camera Obscura technique with cameras made from old boxes or cans. Nowadays he mainly uses his van and ordinary room interiors to create large images. Since 1993 Ilan Wolff has been giving regular workshops in the technique of photography with the Camera Obscura and using photographic emulsion to create images on different surfaces. Ilan Wolff also undertakes photo

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Camera Obscura

obcuraThe turn of the century bas seen many drastic changes, particularly in the development of the High Tech industry : digital systems,computer images and the Internet, all of which affect our cultural life
and photography in particular.
Considering the considerable changes which are taking place in the world of photography, there is an important place for camera obscura in its unique activity of preserving old photographic
techniques by holding workshops, either in schools and universities,or for private individuals.


What is a Camera Obscura ?

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exhibition in Spain

New exhibition:

Retrospective exhibition in Roquetas de Mar (Almeria), Spain

The exhibition is taking place in the Castillio de Santa Ana  in Roquetas de Mar near Almeria -  Until 30.03.13 .

More then 130 images since 1982 until 2012 are exposing. From a series of large format images of +- 300x127cm of different  monuments realizing using my Van -car as camera obscura to a small format images realizing by small pin hole cameras, 3 pin hole camera , earth camera... and photograms images.

The exhibition in divided to 2 parts - on the ground floor -  pin hole photography  with more of my classic works inclouding my first works from 1982 untill the large format images.

 On the first floor the photogram series which incloud the 4 elements works - "Calorigram" technique as well  some "Lunagram" images and "Naturogram" technique images which made in the last years since 2000.

 

 

30 years of camera obscura

Here by a selection of images which present  my works since 30 years ,working with diferent thechinques from Photogram , Camera Obscura (pin hole) until my last works using the moon light - the Lunagram