Jenny Tomlin Photographics

17/06/2026

Some more pinhole images from the Highwic Pinhole workshop as well as details from the day. Where it all happened... Like a crazy Cluedo experience.

1. by Andrew Langridge
2. by Angela
3. Can camera and paper neg
4. the bathroom darkroom
5. our workspace - the Billiard Room
6. Busy billiard room
7. negatives drying - internal courtyard
8. the group shot
9. iso-anamorph camera and paper negative

15/06/2026

Last Saturday's workshop was a great success. After the fog lifted, it was a gorgeous day and everyone's cameras worked fabulously.
I love how the imprecise nature of pinhole can celebrate the expressive abstract as well as moody realism and everything in between.
At the end of the day we made a 20sec group shot in front of Highwic with an isosceles pinhole camera.
Thanks so much to the Highwic team for hosting and to be part of again.

Here's a selection from some of the participant's images.

1. group shot
2. Hayley
3.
4. Lisa Marshall
5. olive
6. Liana

10/06/2026

One last minute spot has become available on the Pinhole workshop at Highwic this Saturday as a participant has needed to cancel.

Contact Bex at Highwic if you're interested.
[email protected]

Runs 10am-3pm, Sat 13 June, at Highwic Historical House, 40 Gillies Ave, Newmarket. $120 pp. All materials provided.

21/05/2026

Just over 3 weeks to go until the next pinhole workshop! This will be a special one. 😊 I'll be holding it at Highwic House in Newmarket.
We make our own pinhole cameras and make exposures with photo paper, developing the results in the historic bathroom repurposed into a darkroom. It's happening Saturday June 13 from 10am - 3pm. $120 pp . There are still spaces available. Bookings thru Highwic website (what's on). or msg me for more details.
As part of the Auckland Festival of Photography there will also be a display of my pinhole cameras and the images made from them at Highwic running from May 29 till June 13.

18/05/2026

I'm excited to share elements of my practice on pinhole and alt processes in this interview freshly out in lomography magazine. Woohoo!

Artist Jenny Tomlin reflects on nearly 40 years of practice dedicated to testing things that shouldn’t work, but do. Embark on a journey revealing that only imagination stands in the way of transforming everyday objects into cameras.

14/05/2026

Just a week to go till our show Cross Track showing at Studio One Toi Tū in the Cell Block Studios!
I'm very excited to be showing with , a multimedia artist who started as a photographer and now creates in several 2D mediums.

The opening preview will be super. Studio One Toi Tū holds all their galleries on the same night - ours plus 5 other artists! From 5 pm Wednesday 20th May. Ours is running as part of Auckland Festival of Photography

Cross Track runs from May 21 till June 6th. One of us will be there if you want to pop in and see the work. We'll be around weekdays 11-3 and Saturdays 11-4.
We've both been so busy there'll be lots of new work that we're excited to share.

05/05/2026

I have an exhibition 'Cross Track' coming up with . later this month at Studio One Toi Tū in Cell Block Studios.
Running from May 21 - June 6.
Open weekdays 11-3, Saturdays 11-4, closed Sundays

Opening event Wednesday May 20th from 5 pm.

Faye Norman and Jenny Tomlin’s works explore overlooked and untracked routes – natural spaces and found objects that exist alongside suburbia. Tomlin intuitively uses pinhole to interpret the space as felt rather than seen, producing images that are interpretive rather than strictly realist. The variability and serendipity of pinhole encourage moving offtrack and exploring the deeper bush over extended periods of time. Norman gathers materials through chance encounters, and these are brought into the Cell Block Studio. Scanning and subtle visual manipulations transform these objects into dislocated traces. Though altered, the images retain connections to their original contexts, creating a delicate tension between origin and presentation. In the exhibition, external locations and materials converge, where traces of past use and environmental conditions remain visible, producing a quiet sense of the uncanny.

04/04/2026

Moving along a creek up an untracked bush gully with my phone looking for pinhole possibilities, the birds were all around, chatting to me. As always, missing the moment with this tui but just getting a glimpse of it's wing as it disappeared.

03/03/2026

Some vertical panoramas from the eclipsemint pinhole camera off track in Titirangi. I so love the infinite depth of field. Everything semi sharp.
I'm not sure about which waterfall version works best. When I made them I was sure the 2nd one would be the one but now thinking the 1st one with it off to the edge is better. Any votes either way?

1. Phyto Kauri.
2. Rata
3. Waterfall 1
4. Waterfall 2

28/02/2026

So pleased to get my colour panorama pinhole film back from today. Definitely works better than expected. Still get the random light leaks that I love about homemade cameras but so good to get multiple shots. 24exposure gives 8 -9 exposures. Almost like 'real' photography. 😉