Seeing With Photography

The images in this series are all light paintings made using a 4x5 inch view camera - in a very dark room, and with a flashlight. They span many years roughly from 1998 until around 2007, the group rarely uses the big view camera now, as Polaroid has discontinued production of their negative film.

Dale Cannedy Boxing a Brailled Bird by Steven Erra ,1999

Liz with her Dog by Steven Ewith, Mark Andres and Peter Lui

part 1 of planned Tryptch ,version a, 2010

Playing with Light

Playing with light

Patrick Rochon - Light painting portraits

http://www.patrickrochon.com/portrait/portrait.html

Concept

The rise of the internet has bought forth some intriguing questions relating to the way that we identify ourselves. With the evolution towards a digital era, we are losing a sense of control over our own precious identity. This has allowed for the use of multiple digital identities, which are not necessarily truthful to the one creating that digital personality.

My concept looks to express the idea of multiple identities, through a combination with the light painting process. The process will be used to create multiple exposures of the face, experimenting with different colours and sorts of light to represent the alternative ways to expose oneself, a direct link to the ability of the internet and other digital sources.

First shoot

Images from my first photoshoot...

The images show some initial tests into using light painting to partially reveal, and double-expose identity.

Morty King by Morty King, Mark Andres, and Steven Erra

This portrait photograph is part of a collaborative project called Shooting Blind, a project undertaken by a group of visually-impaired photographs. While a photographer usually has sharper vision than most of us, these photographers have only partial vision, or no vision at all.

This image of Morty King uses time-lag chronophotography exposures and flashlights to paint the composition that the photographer was looking for. It expresses the emotion that comes with being visually impaired; the frustration, awkwardness and anxiety that . The flashlight has been used as a metaphor for a blind-mans walking cane, feeling and exposing specific details and emotions of the person in the image.