About the Author

Peter Olpe, born in 1949, is a graphic designer, photographer, and illustrator. He taught at the Basel School of Design until his retirement in 2009. From the late seventies, Peter Olpe dealt with the design and construction of pinhole cameras for medium-format film. He realised photographic projects and showed and sold them in exhibitions or exchanged them for art. Olpe is also the author of several books on drawing and pinhole photography.