Camper Obscura is a mobile camera obscura inside an 1986 Foster and Day conversion of a T25 VW Campervan.
After more than a year of planning, the Summer of 2010 saw Fotonow CIC bring their project Camper Obscura into life. Photographers Jonathan Blyth and Matthew Pontin had already established a practice in working with communities in building camera obscuras through working with young people on educational projects, the idea of a mobile vehicle emerged in the shape of a Foster and Day coach-built 198
15/02/2026
Please take a look and donate to the Obscura Legacies fundraiser… and help shape a network for all things camera obscura - obscura
Obscura Legacies Celebrate Camera Obscuras as they are now, research & record their fascinating past; including enthusiast Derek Swindley’s ingenious impact.
22/06/2024
03/03/2024
Beep beep everyone! Book the Camper for your community event via Fotonow's recent Crowdfunder; https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/creative-connections-fotonow
The money raised will help sustain four amazing photography programmes here in Plymouth!!! So PLEASE SUPPORT and SHARE - Fotonow (CIC)
Creative Connections - Community Photography Raising funds for free weekly Creative Connections photo-sessions for Plymouth's young people, women+, older residents & refugees!
23/10/2022
Great fun with Molly running cyanotype printing the past two days at the Print in Action festival at Ocean Studios! Thanks to everyone that popped by!!
08/10/2022
Lovely day in the sun gathering stories about Trefusis Park on BRIC project in Plymouth. Friends of Trefusis Park Plymouth any more stories we’d love to know more [email protected] with Fotonow (CIC)
31/10/2021
Great to be out working in Keyham tonight offering up a pop-up portrait studio open for everyone out for Halloween.. a really amazing community spirit and we can’t wait to install an exhibition of images on 5th November at Keyham Green Places Fotonow (CIC)
14/08/2021
Running cyanotype workshops at Pioneers Project’s family fun day in Barne Barton.