Jamie House

Jamie House
11/7/1978 Born Bristol UK
A well dressed Gentleman,conceptual artist that uses mail art and Pinhole Photography

Pinhole Photographer and camera Obscura builder:

My camera obscura experiments examine the way people interact with their environment.I want people to slow down and meditate on a view inside the dark chamber of the camera obscura.I leave the external environment to make the image and the camera obscura just frames the ephermel fleeting nature of the environment it views.
Viewer participation an integral part of my practice, however not in an end in itself.it acts as a vehicle to informally test the my theories concerning visual perception and physiological reactions. Applying scientific experiment and sensory immersion.

The other strand to my practice is producing imagery using mail art and pinhole photography to examine the role of the `stranger` in society and why we are interested in people we dont know, these images show chance encounters and intimate double exposure visual portraits,of people who have not met in person and only meet by the mediated gaze of the pinhole camera, relates to our way we remotely interact with others in the information age.

I recently built e...

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS

2010- PGCE in Post Compulsory Education

2009-Level 3 NCFE business Studies for the creative arts

2004 2:1 in BA (Hons) Visual Communication: Photomedia

2001 Merit in RSA Advanced diploma in Foundation Photography and Audio Visual Studies

2000 - A In A-level Photographic Studies

2010-That Gallery Hong Kong, Unwrap your mind Exhibition.

2010 Goa International Pinhole exhibition, New Delhi, touring to Goa and Mumbai.
2009-"X-ray of Fear". Spain The gallery of the Educational Sciences Faculty (University of A Corua)..
2009-"X-ray of Fear". Spain Central gallery, Campus of Pontevedra (Universidade de Vigo).
2009- Camera obscura, Trerice at national trust property Cornwall, permanent camera obscura tent and light experimentation chamber, re-creating experiments by Isaac Newton. Aristotle and Grimaldi. Collaboration with pinhole photographer Justin Quinnell.
2009 Ersatz camera work exhibition, San Francisco (U.S.A), collaboration with Jo Babcock.
2009-Travelling Light, London/Venice 53rd biennale exhibition.
2007 - Photo London Month, Arts Pavilion at Mile End, Pinhole Balloon Project
2007 - London Independent Photography, 19th Annual exh...