About

🕯️ We dedicate this first AWPCP.org edition to sensei Eric Renner — a great promoter of pinhole photography around the world. Visit his amazing work at ericrennerphoto.com — R.I.P.

A.W.P.C.P. — Around the World’s Pinhole Crazy People — is a non-profit association founded in April 2020 by Alfonso de Castro and Joan Linux, united by their passion for pinhole photography. Both had already prepared and actively participated in organising and spreading this photographic technique at Can Basté in previous years.

The project and website are currently coordinated by Joan Linux through his photography training project Llumàtics with the support of La Nau Bostik in the Sagrera neighbourhood.

Our mission is to organise the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day in Barcelona every year, and to promote the oldest photographic technique — camera obscura — through workshops, exhibitions, and community events.

Since 2020 we have gathered pinhole enthusiasts from around the world, building cameras out of soda cans, matchboxes, cookie tins, and anything that lets light in through a tiny hole. No lenses, no stress, no rules — just the pure magic of light.

Our values

• Radical openness: anyone can make a pinhole camera
• Creative imperfection: the hole doesn’t have to be round
• Community: we share, teach, and learn together
• Sustainability: we build from reclaimed materials

Get involved

We are open to help, contributions, patronage and sponsorships to spread and advocate for primitive analog photography — pinhole photography.

Join us for the next edition — bring a cardboard box, a tin can, or just your curiosity.