User:Pinholeguy/sandbox

·        1 Life and work

Justin Quinnell was born in Portishead near Bristol in 1962, moving to Bristol with his mother and three brothers in 1967. He was educated at St Bedes School where he gained his interest in photography and Filton College where he studied A level and Foundation before moving on to University in Derby where he studied fine art photography under John Blakemore, Paul Hill and Richard Sadler.

·        2 Professional photographer

After his degree Justin worked for a year in a wood before taking on various aspects of commercial photography including travel work where he photographed Turkey for the travel company Horizon Holidays in Birmingham.

·        3 Educator

Justin encountered pinhole photography when head of photography at South Bristol college. Although he had done little pinhole photography before he says ‘ The students couldn’t afford cameras so I decided to make use of the well used coke can machine getting all the class to make pinhole cameras out of the drink cans enabling everyone to have the same level of 'equipment'.

Discover of pinhole photography

His encouragement of pinhole to his students occured at a time when Justin was becoming disillusioned with his photography as well as getting interested and involved with environmental Politics.