with the artist Fabian Haspinger
for Families & Kids
The camera obscura is one of the earliest and most essential forms of photography — reduced to its core elements: light, time, and observation. In this workshop, children, teenagers, and families will playfully discover the fundamentals of analogue photography. Using a camera obscura as our camera — a simple optical box that allows light to enter through a tiny opening and project an upside-down image of the outside world onto light-sensitive material — we will explore Fortezza Fortress and capture our impressions through this unique photographic process. Afterwards, we will develop the negatives together in the darkroom, transforming them step by step into visible images.
The workshop offers a basic understanding of photography as a process: How is an image created? What does exposure mean? And how do light and shadow shape our perception? The focus lies on experimentation, slowing down, and experiencing the simple magic of photographic image-making.