While n the 10th Grade, a 15 years old version of Nuno had the chance to build a Pinhole camera.

All I needed to start building my camera was a cardboard box. Then I did all the necessary adjustements, like the very tiny hole in one of the sides for the light to come in.

​

But what's a Pinhole camera?

It's a lensless camera that uses a small hole ("pinhole") to project an inverted image onto a photosensitive material or screen, exploiting the principle of a darkroom. They can be constructed from simple materials, such as boxes, and require long exposure times, resulting in single images with infinite depth of field but no focus.
How it works:
Aperture: Light from an object passes through a tiny hole (the pinhole).
Image Projection: The image is projected onto the opposite wall of the chamber interior, inverted.
Light Sensitivity: The pinhole projects the image onto the sensitive material (film or photographic paper) or onto an electronic device.

​

With all that, on this page you can see the picture I took. I just chose the place I wanted to photograph and imagined the outcome of the photograph. I tried to choose and take care of the framing the best that I could, since there's no way of having a preview.

It's nice to have this photograph, it was also taken inside the school, outside – what you see in the picture is part of my old school building.

​

Then, when I picked up the camera from the ground, I went to the laboratory, with specific light not to damage anything, and removed the sensitive paper that was on the inside of the box (camera).

Right after I began the process of developing the photograph. Here the magic started, and it was possible to see little by little, the photograph appear on the paper.