Welcome to The Pinhole Project website and official archive. Following Janet Neuhauser’s passing in March 2026, photographer Jenny Riffle has taken over The Pinhole Project and is honored to carry on Janet’s beautiful vision—sharing the magic of pinhole photography and making cameras available to anyone who wants to experience it.
Janet was a photographer and beloved photography educator for more than 30 years. She started The Pinhole Project in 2013 while teaching photography at Bainbridge High School as a way for her digital photography students to experience pinhole photography without needing access to a darkroom. Because of those beginnings, the archive includes a large and wonderful collection of work made by generations of Bainbridge High School students, alongside images made by participants from around the world.
All of the images on this website have been made by a variety of enthusiasts using a variety of cameras. Each image is shot in a homemade metal tin and exposed outside for at least a week, sometimes as long as a year or even two. Enjoy the beautiful colors, the arc of the sun as it crosses the sky (aka the sun trail), and idiosyncratic long-exposure pinhole images of all types. Enjoy, as well, the happy accidents all over the place.
The images here have been placed on various gallery pages; use the search box on this page to find an image you are interested in.
Be sure to check out the NEWS page for pinhole news of all kinds.
To find your image, type your name into the search block on the home page and the image(s) should appear. Good luck! We’re happy to help. Go to the Contact page and send us your questions.
Double exposure pinhole image of Jenny Riffle by Janet Neuhauser.
LIKENESS: Self-Portraits by Janet Neuhauser
Photography Book by Janet Neuhauser
Janet Neuhauser was a photographer’s photographer. Her absolute delight in the medium and its endless possibilities of creative expression is on full display through her three-decade practice of self-portraiture. From 8x10 and 4x5 film through Polaroids, pinhole, and digital exposure, and then a dazzling array of darkroom papers and alt process techniques, Neuhauser probes the visual and psychological in her persistent studies of self.
Shortly after retiring from teaching, Janet was diagnosed with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), and for the last few years bravely endured the effects of this disease. She died March 7, 2026.