Solargraphy is an “anti-technological” means of capturing a photographic image.

Solargraphs, with their extremely long exposure times from days to half a year, fascinate and surprise us as they freeze the very slow tracks of the sun into one image.

In the simplest pinhole camera, the sun will leave traces on an emulsion of photosensitive materials on a piece of black-and-white photographic paper. Solargraphy is an ecological way to take photographs as the solargraphs are neither developed nor fixed in any fluids. All these chemicals would darken the photosensitive emulsion so that the images would eventually disappear. The tracks can be safely viewed only in dimmed light after exposing.