Thomas Töpler

Niemcy – Deutschland

Egling

May 1998

Initial contact with pinhole photography – more or less "accidentally" – during a conversation on my 30^th birthday.

1999-2001

First steps using a pinhole camera construction set and two self-made cameras with b&w paper.

In late 2001 joining the „Forum Visuelle TonArt” of the artist Andreas Weidner.

2002-2006

In 2002 conceptual design and construction of the much more developed pinhole camera I still work with. Switch from b&w paper to b&w sheet film. Ten day photo trip to Brittany, several shorter trips to various places, studio activities.

First exhibitions.

2007-2008

First nude photography shootings. Switch from darkroom/b&w to hybrid/color. Presentation of the pictures in a much larger size, on stretched canvas or curved with special racks.

2009-2010

Further tracing of the way taken in 2008.

Participation in OFFO 2009.

Photo trip to Lanzarote and New York.

2011

Experiments with flowers.

Photo trip to Paris intended.