Camera Obscura
Pinhole photography - Bethany de Forest
Bethany de Forest creates fantasy worlds with plants and insects in the leading role, whereby everyday objects are presented out of context inside a mirror-walled model, thus acquiring a totally different meaning. Using a pinhole camera (camera obscura, a camera without a lens) she photographs surrealistic landscapes from the viewpoint of insects, with life-size plants, and with infinite depth of field. For this exhibition as well as for the 'Red-end and the Factory Plant' animation film Bethany has built a model of the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam's palm greenhouse, full of life-size carnivorous pitcher plants.
Pinhole photography - Bethany de Forest
Bethany de Forest creates fantasy worlds with plants and insects in the leading role, whereby everyday objects are presented out of context inside a mirror-walled model, thus acquiring a totally different meaning. Using a pinhole camera (camera obscura, a camera without a lens) she photographs surrealistic landscapes from the viewpoint of insects, with life-size plants, and with infinite depth of field. For this exhibition as well as for the 'Red-end and the Factory Plant' animation film Bethany has built a model of the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam's palm greenhouse, full of life-size carnivorous pitcher plants.