Morell had turned his classroom into a camera obscura, a dark chamber, the Latin name for perhaps the earliest known imaging device and the ancestor of the photographic camera. Explaining the ...

Ancient technique adapted to modern technology For his daytime shoots, Morell creates a portable camera obscura with a tripod, a dark cloth and a lens.

He said he chose it because of the term ‘camera obscura’, which is a darkened room with a hole on one side through which an image is projected. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle is ...