Sam Choisy is a personal friend and an artist The Luminous Landscape profiled last year. Sam is a French transplant to Canada who carries a very palpably French sensibility in his abstract, romantic, vibrantly contemporary art. His work is entirely singular and based on a unique and intimate method. Sam teaches his approach and philosophy, a hands-on, very immersive … [Read more...]
Lightpainting with a Harmonograph Harmony of Light – From Technology to Art? By Andrew Carter
Follow Introduction I am a lifetime enthusiast photographer, but my career has been in Optoelectronics and Engineering, designing and building the devices that power today’s optical transmission for the Internet. When the pandemic hit, members of our local camera club were looking for activities to try, share and learn from, but at a distance. I chose to build a … [Read more...]
Ajani Charles – The Impact.
Growing up in the extremely multicultural city of Toronto, my friends, family members, and collaborators invariably represent a diverse group of people. The network of artists I draw inspiration from consist of people with highly varying lived experiences informing their views and, as a result, my own. Many people in my circle have, at some point, also intersected with the … [Read more...]
Jacques Oulé: Across time, into the sublime.
Jacques Oulé was born in France in 1958, he grew up in Aix en Provence, lived in Paris before moving to Toronto in 1981. He has pursued an interest in photography for many years, questioning its content and his position in it, and has immersed himself with its range of thecnique and possibilities. As a visual artist Jacques Oulé use the camera as a tool to look deeply and … [Read more...]
(Rediscover) Voice In A Landscape
When I began taking landscape photographs my primary interest was in capturing the scenery in front of the lens. After all, isn’t that what it’s all about? After several years I realised that few of the photographs I took really excited me and so I began to explore what was missing in either my technique or composition. It wasn’t that there was anything wrong with my images, … [Read more...]