17 March 2019

Photographing the sun's journey

One of my favourite parts of The Sun exhibition at the Science Museum (till 6 May) was the Solargraphy project, designed and coordinated by Tarya Trygg, photography lecturer in Finland. The project is part of her PhD work.

Participants set up a pinhole camera and left it in place for a year. The exposed film shows the tracks the sun made across the sky -
Latitude matters! In the top row, the one on the left is taken in Alaska, and beside it is a solargraph from Quito, Ecuador -
 The one of Stonehenge is rather miraculous -

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