The project BOXOCAM of the photo artist Matthias Hagemann celebrates the "slow photo". Well known objects appear as new ones due to the Camera Obscura.

In times of digital cameras BOXOCAM returns to the origin of photography. All picture are created without a industrial made camera.

The BOXOCAM made of tin boxes work by a tiny drilled hole on the front and a b&w photographic paper on the rear. The shutter release is reduced to a simple black cross protecting the tiny hole.

Exposure times are variing between half a minute and fifteen minutes, coresponding to the circumstances of light. This is the reason for the grey shadow left by the minute marker on the station clock.

Long exposure time make fast moving objects disappear, changes slow moving objects into fog style and captures stillstanding objects with sharpness.

The result is a negative picture. The final view can't be controlled before while there is no viewfinder like normal cameras used to have. Another typical feature is the worms-eye view sticking the object to the ground and making use of the high depth of field of the Camera Obscura.