Wayne Belger is, among other things, a photographer. But he doesn’t just grab his twelve megapixel high-end digital camera to shoot. He builds his own. And when I say he builds his own cameras, you better believe he goes the extra mile to make each camera unusual and extraordinary. You see, his pinhole cameras are not just a box with a hole in one end and photo paper in the other – he builds each one out of materials that relate to the subject he will be shooting. For instance, when he shoots underwater, sea creatures and shells adorn the camera he builds. Shooting Asian refugees, he built a camera using a 500 year old Tibetan Lama skull.

Wayne is one of the most artistic, expressive people that I’ve come across so far. His site – the images of the cameras, the images taken with the cameras themselves – are well worth viewing. But be warned – some of them are dark, disturbing, and grotesque, just like the cameras themselves. Do not take what you see lightly.

Boy Of Blue Industries – The Art Of Wayne Martin Belger