This project can be summed up as a return to the roots of photography by bringing together all the means available to make light exist in a poetic way.
To seek out light, to approach it, to tame it - hasn't this been humanity's quest since the beginning?
In any case, it's the quest of PHOTO (light) GRAPHICS (writing) ...
Getting back to the fundamentals of photography, while emphasising the poetry of the images, is the aim of this research (still in progress) carried out by N_VR.
It's about how light extinguishes colours when it's blinding, and how it can sometimes hide what it should reveal. It's about the figure of Lucifer, the bringer of light who seduces people with a dazzling light that masks instead of illuminating, preventing everyone from discerning, whereas in our culture we're used to referring to light as necessarily positive, yet it's the shadows that best reveal the light.
It is this operation of transfiguring the world through light, which constitutes the very essence of photography, that we need to approach as closely as possible.
Capturing that 'decisive moment' when light sublimates the world without blinding it is what drives the artist. This work on light expands as she progresses, and is undoubtedly the quest of a lifetime as an artist.
In any case, it's the quest of PHOTO (light) GRAPHICS (writing) ...
Getting back to the fundamentals of photography, while emphasising the poetry of the images, is the aim of this research (still in progress) carried out by N_VR.
It's about how light extinguishes colours when it's blinding, and how it can sometimes hide what it should reveal. It's about the figure of Lucifer, the bringer of light who seduces people with a dazzling light that masks instead of illuminating, preventing everyone from discerning, whereas in our culture we're used to referring to light as necessarily positive, yet it's the shadows that best reveal the light.
It is this operation of transfiguring the world through light, which constitutes the very essence of photography, that we need to approach as closely as possible.
Capturing that 'decisive moment' when light sublimates the world without blinding it is what drives the artist. This work on light expands as she progresses, and is undoubtedly the quest of a lifetime as an artist.
