Camera Obscura Workshops

The association traditionally organizes camera obscura workshops for children and young people at least once a year. Camera obscura (lat. darkened room) is the first primitive camera from which modern and contemporary photography later developed, which is an integral part of our lives today. Although there is a huge difference between modern, technically more advanced and more precise cameras and the centuries-old camera obscura, it is often forgotten that today’s photo technology works on the same operating principle. The simplicity of creating and using, as well as the fascinating process, allow different ages to participate in the workshops, and the cooperation is especially well-established with the upper grades of elementary school who are starting to get acquainted with important concepts from chemistry and physics and who can, in a practical way, apply and consolidate their knowledge from classes hrough the camera obscura workshops.

The workshop takes 4 days, mostly two weekends in a row, 4 hours a day, and participants go through the entire process from making their own boxes – cameras, taking photos and developing photos. The professional coordinators of the workshop, Maja Prgomet and Milan Šabić, were trained by the Croatian Photographic Union to implement the program.