These incredibly intricate pinhole cameras are made from clay

Steve Irvine is an incredibly talented ceramic artist, but he's been passionate about photography for almost as long as he's been working with clay. "It only seems natural," he says, "that the two passions should come together." And when they do, the ceramic pinhole cameras you see above are the result. In the gallery above, each camera is followed by a sample photograph taken with the selfsame camera. Most are made using a combination of throwing and hand-building techniques, glazed and fired b...