Fotolateras: When Cities Are Photographed with Tin Cans

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Lola Barcia Albacar and Marinela Forcadell Breva, known as Fotolateras, are two Spanish photographers who describe themselves as tireless travelers passionate about pinhole photography. This technique, one of the oldest in the world of photography, involves capturing images with almost no conventional photographic equipment.

This technique requires expertise, as each can captures only a single photograph and exposure times can exceed a full minute. However, the results are well worth the effort: images imbued with a captivating beauty. In the case of Fotolateras, Lola and Marinela use cameras built from cans, where the lens is simply a tiny hole drilled into the surface.

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Cite: Javier García Librero. "Fotolateras: When Cities Are Photographed with Tin Cans" [Fotolateras: cuando las ciudades se fotografían con latas] 04 Jul 2026. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1114701/fotolateras-when-cities-are-photographed-with-tin-cans> ISSN 0719-8884
Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Aqueduct of Segovia (Spain), and New York City (United States). Image © Fotolateras

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