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Honey, I flipped the garden: how I turned my house into a camera obscura

Locked down with your family? Want to impress the kids with a technique Canaletto used in 18th-century Venice? Our writer goes through the pinhole• The best arts and entertainment during self-isolation
‘It’ll be magical and spooky’ … Tim Jonze’s camera obscura. Photograph: Tim Jonze

Our lives could all do with a bit of magic in them right now and Justin Quinnell is promising just that: “Using nothing more than a piece of card,” he says, “people can turn their rooms into camera obscuras and create some true lockdown wonder,” he says.

Quinnell helps run , which has been going for 20 years and takes place on Sunday 26 April (Quinnell’s birthday). Last year, more than 2,000 people from 57 countries made pinhole images – usually projecting inverted images of

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