As the name suggests, this work, titled "Straw Camera," is a simple camera made of a wooden box packed full of straws. The photographs captured through this camera evoke a nostalgic feeling, like watching old TV footage, and a fresh sense of seeing a new side of the subject.

The Straw Camera was created by Michael Farrell and Cliff Haynes. The two were both photography technicians working in various fields, including education, but they became colleagues and hit it off. The project began with a shared interest in how images can be created in a direct manner, and Michael's long-standing interest in pinhole cameras.

At the beginning of the project, they focused on capturing still lifes, but gradually shifted to taking portraits of people and other subjects. After repeated trial and error and prototype development since 2008, the straw camera has evolved into a pentagonal wooden structure packed with approximately 32,000 straws.

While a pinhole camera captures the entire image from a single point, a straw camera collects light from the holes in countless straws and projects it to the other side. While the two may seem similar, they are very different. Sadly, Michael passed away in 2015, but a book documenting the work he and his partner Cliff created and their struggle to complete the project, "Straw Camera," is now available for purchase.

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