Box Camera

Bob Preston

October 26 to November 24, 2007

For the past five years, Victoria-based photographer Bob Preston has been making box cameras out of recycled materials such as cigar boxes, computer packaging and century-old camera lenses purchased off eBay. Engaging in a process both devotional and transmutative, Preston purpose-builds these cameras—themselves works of art—for specific photographic projects, working with technical limitations in order to concentrate his artistic focus, and as a response to society’s preoccupation with technological gadgetry. This exhibition is the culmination of Preston’s efforts, displaying his otherworldly images alongside the unique contraptions which made them.