Synestiasia sunday.
Mid-november, Egzo the Artkemyst came in Nantes straight from the French West Indies (where my roots are) to spent a couple of days with me before moving to Paris. It's always special when we meet : it was were we were living both in Paris, and it's still the same now, whatever the distance between us.
Egzo is about to drop a new musical album so he wanted to produce visual content with me, using lightpainting and infrared photography. For that lightpainting serie, I had a specific idea in mind. This is simple but very efficient, according to my opinion. As Egzo's artwork is more and more focused on Nature, it was obvious for me to use vegetation with simple ambient lighting. Doing light calligraphy here would have been really weird and counter-productive.
Since he returned to the French West Indies (=home), his work tells about his bound with family, ancestors, Nature, caribean heritate. "Back to the roots" can sound a bit cliché but it is really the process.
To be honest, I had no idea how to work with that stone sculpture. But that's the goal of artistical collaborations : walking on new paths, see things a bit differently, get out of your comfort zone... Egzo is the best person for that, I love his work and I have full confidence in him.
Synesthesia is a non-pathological neurological phenomenon by which two or more senses are associated. The origin of synesthesia is at least partly genetic and hereditary, transmitted via certain chromosomes. It is acquired from the person's birth (the person is then called a synesthete) and/or induced by hallucinogenic substances, apparently linked to an induced hyperactivity of the serotonergic system.
Egzo is a multimodal synesthesic person. Rarer than bimodal synesthesia, it concerns the crossing of at least three sensory modes, in a bi-directional manner : music evokes colors and colors evoke music, music evokes shapes and shapes evoke music, color synesthetes perceive colors in response to sounds...
When you consider it, you easily understand how his brain works and the exceptional possibilities it gives to him in his creative journey as an active beatmaker, rapper, poet, writer, painter, upcycling artist...
Lightpainting created in real time, captured to the camera in single photographic frames. SOOC
No layers /no Photoshop / no editing except minor adjustments (lens correction profite, WB, contrast (+12)) and addition of my logo.
Gear :
Canon EOS 6D body
Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS II USM lens
Canon RC-E6 IR remote
Zomei carbon tripod
November 2024
Lightpainting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source while taking a long exposure photograph, either to illuminate a subject or to shine a point of light directly at the camera, or by moving the camera itself during exposure. Nothing is added or removed in post processing.
/nolayer /notricks /nophotoshop
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