IMAGINATION - What do you see?
IMAGINATION, like a game, is about the first thing that comes to your mind when you look at these images. Just like looking at clouds or ink spots and seeing a land scape or an animals in them. The title I gave is the first thing that came through my mind when I looked at it. This...
SUPERNOVAE - Fashion Through the Eye of Light
Link to the Youtube version: https://youtu.be/nl8diNojT70 This is a collaborative multimedia fashion shoot. It started as a fashion shoot between make up artist Nathalie Dodon and I. We were supposed to do what we call a test shoot. The idea was to do a commercial version of light painting for a fashion client my agency and...
Light Painting Sculpture - Four dimensional art
I used my skills as a light painter to work on the idea of a light sculpture. I almost want to say a kinetic light sculpture because of the look and the feeling it gives, but in reality these are all movements done by hand in a studio on a black background with the new...
LIGHT PAINTING MANIFESTO
I now declare Light Painting as form of art. It is the art of moving light and mixture painting and photography. This art is a new way to express and explore the inner and the unseen. From now on, it is a form of art here, for all of us to enjoy. Light Painting is...
NAKED Light Painting
This is a new series I started in 2010. For about 7 years, in the back of my mind, I’ve been searching for the idea, the style, the essence, the direction. Last year after building new tools, I realised they were perfect for the Naked Light Painting series. The idea is to create a world where...
Butoh dancer SAL VANILLA, Tokyo 1998-2001
I connected with members of Sal Vanilla a Butoh dance group. Butoh is a contemporary dance form born in the sixties. We started a series of collaborations, Light painting at first, then video, then live performances. The collaboration between Sal Vanilla and I, was pure symbiosis. We were like one creative living organism. With barely...
Karine Vanasse, actress
Experimentation, Montreal 2010. This a collaboration I did with actress Karine Vanasse and makeup artist Anicko . This was my first time working with a professional actress. By the quality of her presence, Karine enriched the shooting and influenced my light painting in new creative directions. https://www.karinevanasse.com/ Link to Anicko’s agency Satellite: https://agencesatellite.com/#/maquillage-et-coiffure/anicko
Toyota Altezza, Japan 1998
Full length promotional video (10 minutes): Excerpt from the interview with Camera Obscura: https://cameraobscura.busdraghi.net/2010/patrick-rochon/ While I was in Japan (1997-2008), I was introduced by photographer New York photographer Mark Higashino (https://www.mhpi.com/) to Itaru Sugita an art director and graphic designer. In 1998 I was passing by Itaru’s office in Tokyo to say hi, he was...
Fire light painting with Anita Bombita
On my way to the shoot with my friend Anita Bombita, I had a vision of creating fire with light painting. The way I did it was with to different color flashlights, yellow and dark orange and my fingers. I sculpted the light with the fingers as I’m moving upwards. Anita is an art director...
Golden Warrior - IdN magazine Hong Kong
When I did a first collaboration actress Karine Vanasse and makeup artist Anicko, after the shoot, I got a vision of this gold leaf character. I immediately mentioned it to Anicko the makeup artist, and then said it would be perfect to do for the special 100th issue of IdN.Anicko and I did meetings to figure...
NYC building projection and promo video. 305W16
Jennifer Daoust AKA Video Girl, Sylvain Lavoie and I went to New York to launch and promote the new condo building, The 305W16 https://305w16.com/ . We did live VJing and live Kaleidoscope light painting projections from the building across: For the promotion of the building, we did a video using light painting: Some photography including the...
