How to Build A Back-lit Vintage Photo Display

Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

Do you ever print your pictures anymore? Most of our readers don’t print pictures that much. If you are the printing kind of person, here is a cool project that will let you display them with pride in a vintage back lit soda box.

How to Build A Back-lit Vintage Photo Display

Photographer Tiffany Angeles used a “vintage” soda crate fitted with a piece of Perspex to create a backlit photo display.

AS she mentions in the video, if you need it to constantly be on, you may wanna use LEDs that go in a power outlet, but the build will remain just the same (we’re actually going to have a very similar build pretty soon for another purpose).

[DIY Photo Light Box from Vintage Soda Crate via LensVid]


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Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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One response to “How to Build A Back-lit Vintage Photo Display”

  1. Nadine Spires Avatar
    Nadine Spires

    I’m busy making a lightbox in a similar way, just without the photos. but really great idea.