The light, which for me is like the brush for a canvas, ranges from artificial to natural. The painterly rhythm of lines, textures and patterns shaped by the light allows me to visually explore extraordinary and vibrant forms. Light is in a constant dance with the world around us. A continually changing palette that produces fleeting moments to be observed and appreciated, never to be the same ever again.
Making the unseen seen, has provoked experimentation with several techniques, motivating me to find ways to best accentuate light and form. As a photographer, I strive to discover the artistry of light. Like thoughts, photography has a way of making emotional states come to life by giving them visual shape. I am constantly delighted to see how images can signify the photographed object while simultaneously represent it as a penetrating and authentic self-portrait.
Many butterflies and insects are naturally attracted to light, they gather around street lamps and porch lights, scientists refer to this lure as “positive photo receptivity”. Like butterflies, I am drawn to the light, it absorbs me, I am its prisoner and combined with deliberate camera movement, my objective is to embrace the light that is presented and make the creative process as natural as breathing. I use light and motion as a gateway to abstraction to capture interesting discoveries in the pursuit for the visual essence of what we see around us. Consequently, when the light is guided with my camera to dance across another colour, a new dimension is shaped and becomes a study of blend hues, tints, tones and shades, the expressive process comes to life.
Deliberately moving my camera at time of exposure like a painter with his brush, I can embrace my spontaneous and emotive response to the composition that is present before me. Therefore, merging light, movement and technique, I am no longer simply following the rules of photographic compositions, I am creating them. My photographic work disrupts the guidelines of what people think photographs to be. I push the limits of the camera and photograph where others do not think a photograph is possible to make. I look for colour interactions, texture, and the elements of form and line, all of them interacting with the transient qualities of light.
My approach is focused on the simplicity of the beauty in the moment. My goal is to silence the noise and clutter to find a sense of calm through light. Thus, my effort is grouped into series that discover ways to abstract reality by finding inspiration within the vivid colours that exists in front of me. It is through this progression of intimate discovery that I recognize the subject matter and the abstract qualities I wish to accentuate. In the making of the images, I often attempt to blur the line between photography and painting.
In conclusion, light inspires me to create by exploring the environment around me and it triggers the creative process. I approach my work with an attitude of unconstrained imagination, unrestricted with predetermined limitations and conventional rules. My compositions are formed using slow exposures to entice the free-flowing movement of light to be captured in camera at that one and only moment in time. In other words, to dance with the light.
To know more about Dancing with light, join on on May 30th at the next photographers social. Link to event : https://www.facebook.com/events/188559168441057/
