Pinhole Photography

These pinhole photographs are by Francesco Capponi, who took an egg, painted the inside with photographic emulsion, and turned it into a pinhole camera. The image on the left is the egg and the negative on the inside, and the right is the same image as the left, only made into a "negative" to see the "positive" of the image inside the egg. While the pictures taken by the "pinhegg," as the artist called it, is grainy, imperfect, and warped by the inside curvature of the egg, it is a remarkable result considering the fragility of the egg and complexity of turning it into a camera. Using an egg to take a photograph such as the ones Capponi did also gives the end result meaning because the image is quite literally born in the egg, and brings to mind life and rebirth, a powerful statement amplified by the image of the huddled and naked figure inside the egg itself. This process of using unusual objects such as an egg to make a camera is fascinating, and removes the constraints of what we do with photography by expanding what we might view as photography.
(pictures from http://www.lomography.com/magazine/lifestyle/2011/04/23/the-pinhegg-my-journey-to-build-an-egg-pinhole-camera )