Tahoe Weekly spoke with “self-titled experimental philosopher and conceptual artist” Jonathon Keats ’94 about his latest project, photographing the future of Tahoe, California with pinhole cameras designed to last 1,000 years.
“After he graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts, Keats moved back to San Francisco to do a series of experimental art projects with an emphasis on shifting people’s perspective on change and social responsibility. In 2010, he teamed up with Good Magazine to create a simple box pinhole camera in an attempt to capture a 100-year-old exposure. The results are set to be published in Good’s January 2110 edition,” Tahoe Weekly’s Kayla Anderson wrote.
The four millennial cameras are set to be placed at Sand Harbor State Park on the East Shore, Eagle Rock on the West Shore, Heavenly Mountain Resort on the South Shore and Tahoe City on the North Shore, accessible to the public.
“I want to get people to see these cameras in space and time, extrapolating futures, engaging the past and present,” Keats said.
UPDATE: The Tahoe project has since been the subject of articles in Popular Photography and The Phoblographer.