A camera obscura is an ancient method of bringing the outside world to an inside space, it’s the most primitive form of camera.
The external world is put through a small hole to bring it down to scale on the inside. It brings the scale of a street down to the scale of a room.
We used time-lapse photography to capture this camera obscura over a few hours.
The video was made in Crampton Buildings, an old Dublin City Center community that dates back one hundred and twenty years. At the moment it is in the process of being temporally cleared of its residents while it is being refurbished.
A bespoke soundtrack to the resulting footage was created by composer Mike Glennon.
A Camera Obscura on the Liffey Quays from Paddy Cahill on Vimeo.