Justin Quinnell: Taking pinhole photography pictures from inside a mouth (PHOTOS).: Photographer Justin Quinnell says he has a lot of crazy ideas and not enough time to try them all.
But one day more than a decade ago, he started thinking about a pinhole camera he had, about 3 inches across, which he figured was nearly indestructible. You could drop it off bridges, he said, or attach it to windshield wipers. Or put it in your mouth. So that's what he did. He hasn't looked back.
"I love it because it's really quite uncomfortable and that's fine. Some pictures are a bit contrived. Others are accidental flukes. Some are a bit unnerving. Others, I'll never forget taking them."
Like the one he took lying down on the floor of the Guggenheim, smiling at the ceiling to capture the spiral ramp. Or the one he tried to take when he put corn in his mouth along with the camera, hoping to attract and photograph pigeons. Or the one in the hospital, when his wife was giving birth to their son.
"I have a very open-minded wife," he said. "But the photo didn't come out. It was a shame."
