Shots in the dark: Richard Learoyd and his supersized camera obscura

Using a camera obscura that’s as big as a room, the photographer creates gothic portraits with a shocking otherworldly beauty
“I was lucky enough to be in the generation before computers became the norm,” Richard Learoyd has said of his time at Glasgow School of Art. “I look back at the time I had there and realise that’s when my life really began.” It was there that Learoyd started experimenting with the antiquarian camera obscura. The literal translation of