Portraits of San Antonio artists, captured in the spaces where they work, dream, and create. Utilizing a traditional pinhole camera, a simple light-proof box with a tiny opening instead of a lens — O’Connell explores a conceptual and symbolic link between the camera and the artistic mind.

The prints created with the platinum-palladium technique are one-or-a-kind, hand-coated with a light sensitive metal/salt solution on an acid/chemical-free paper,  and are distinctive by the noticeable brush marks left behind. To read more about the process, please see the neighboring document.