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Athanasius Kircher // The Camera Obscura // Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbra (The Great Art of Light and Shadow) 1646

Zana Wright is a Sydney based Master of Architecture student, sticky tape street artist and apprentice saver of the world.

The camera obscura (Latin for “dark room”; “darkened chamber”) is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen, consisting of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced, upside-down, but with color and perspective preserved.

Zana Obscura- a hybrid of the above- projects a critically disseminated world. Light, images, ideas- are turned upside down and translated into creative outlets, then pass through this portal- tiny on the scale of the world wide web- ultimately striking the screen before you.

Some may call it an online CV slash photographic blog.

Abelardo Morell // Camera Obscura: View of Central Park Looking North // Summer, 2008