Light Fixtures on Film

Photo Series: Can you Feel the Spark?

I used a film camera and a 50mm lens. It was important for the images to fall between two statements you might hear whispered in a modern art museum "I could've done that" and "I don't get it." Images that can be filed under the modern abstract realm of photography. This is the space where objects are photographed less literally and take a life of it’s own. A goal is to have you question what it's a photo of, giving a moment of pause and reminding you to continue igniting your spark. 

On my time off, I seek heights. Rock climbing being the grand escape. The feeling of the my mind and body sycnronzing is the core of my inspiration. The "spark" I feel when I'm climbing. I took a contemporary twist on igniting that space and feeling that we all share at different points of our lives. I captured that "spark” in everyday object—light fixtures. 

Metering the light was tricky, which led to some happy accidents. A few shots were overexposed and helped create a modern aesthetic. The ones appropriately exposed brought a level of neutrality to the series. The "incorrect" way of metering it is by pointing directly to the light fixture, and this technique is the one I loved the most. The consistency in the images was using circular light fixtures and shooting directly below them. Most of the light fixtures are composed in the center of the image, and I actively played with the rule of thirds.