Wayne Martin Belger

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Wayne Martin Belger (b. 1964) is a self-taught photographer who unites his skills as an artist and machinist to build handmade, subject-specific pinhole cameras as well as installations based on collected artifacts relating to his subjects. Belger’s cameras, which can take many months to manufacture, act as a personal bridge between the photographer and his subject. Belger explains, “With pinhole photography there’s no barrier between the photographer and the subject. There is no lens or electronic circuit chip to affect the light. The same air that touches my subject passes through the pinhole and touches ...

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