Pinhole photograph Accord, NY 2010 

Archival Pigment Print - First Printing 2026 Edition of 250

10"x8" image size presented on 14"x11" Arches BFK Rives Paper in a protective plastic sleeve

Jojo Ans, owner of shop Heirloom, studied photography at SUNY New Paltz in the early 1990’s.

About the work:

I photograph with a pinhole camera. The images are exposed on film, and originally printed in silver gelatin and platinum/palladium. “Primitive” by today’s standards, these traditional techniques are a conduit between the past and the present.

I can’t frame the photos with the pinhole camera; I can’t see what they will reveal. It is as if I'm in a place between the practical and the mystical. With the long exposure time, and the slow process of making the prints, I stand against the rushing tide of instant gratification.

So in using this camera and process, collaboration begins between nature, the camera, and myself. Guided by my intuition, the environment, and surprise.

I also contemplate the archival permanence of the prints and the impermanence of what I capture. The images themselves are not artificially created, but caught in a moment of transition, a time-lapsed moment - between existence and decay. Thus conceiving a dialectical relationship between the craft and the unconscious.