Neo Tribe in 360
Project for Geodezik, a creative client here from Montreal. First we did a pre-shot test to brainstorm and find a direction. Then we did the shoot in 360 degrees with 24 cameras opening at the same time in pitch black darkness. It’s basically the bullet time technique used widely in the Matrix movie plus light...
3rd World Light Painting Exhibition, Oviedo 2014
(updated 09/06/2014) 17.05.2014 1st International LightArt Comgress & 3rd World Light Painting Exhibition, Oviedo 2014 https://www.lpwalliance.com/event/53 We proudly present next LPWA event – 3rd Light Painting World Exhibition and 1st International Light Art Congress, held in Oviedo (Spain)! The time for exhibition July 4-13, for Congress July 4-5. This fantastic event become possible due to...
Radiant Light
Most of what shapes reality is invisible. I’ve been fascinated by what we can’t see, from inner to outer worlds. Like the shape of sounds, energy, vibrations, feelings, the photons our bodies emits. Light is invisible until it touches something. Vibrations made by our voices have the most intricate shapes as we can see with cymatics....
Painting with Light - Montreal Exhibition
Pour récupérer vos images créer le soir de la Nuit Blanche, suivez ce lien : To get the images you created on Nuit Blanche, follow this link: https://patrickrochon.com/MX2014/index.html Invitation Peindre avec la Lumière par Patrick Rochon Patrick Rochon, un peintre de lumière (light painter) canadien, qui a su innover et créer un style unique de...
My TED talk in Rome Trastevere October 16
If you are in ROME on october 16 and want to see my TEDx talk, register here: https://tedxtrastevere.com I’ll be doing a light painting KATA live and share the message behind my work. The video will be posted here when available. Follow TEDx Trastevere on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tedxtrastevere The TEDx Trastevere add for the National Geographic channel:...
The Light Painting KATA
Getting to the essence of what I do, I now understand that light painting is above all, movement. To me, it is a mix of dancing and martial arts. Light moves everywhere all the time. Our bodies are emitting light and expressing something subtle but important. We must see it and understand it. We must...
TRANSIT Art Event.
We put together a new collaboration here in Montreal. This is a semi improvised performance mixing contemporary dance and light painting photography in collaboration with dance group Manon Fait de la Danse. It’s done with light painting photography and live video on monitors. (The show was shorten for this video edit) SOLO: After the...
Living Wallpaper - Art Direction
…I also do art direction, here is a concept I came up with. I created the idea of the living wallpaper for a client in Montreal. The job was to create the visual to cover the walls of a grand ballroom for the big dinner party Jean Coutu in Miami, organized by Bob Communication. With...
LIFTOFF in 360º - The video
It’s incredible to have the chance to create and collaborate on such projects. Hooking up with Timecode Lab and Eric Pare here in Montreal, I had the chance to experiment doing light painting in 360 degree. The set up is quite analog, 24 cameras on a ring in 360 exposing at the same time. So...
360° LP with Geneviève Borne
This is a purely artistic project. A collaboration of artists from Montreal using 24 cameras on a 360 ring in a complete dark room . We do long exposures in the dark to “paint” with light. All the cameras are triggered simultaneously. The average exposure time is between 2 and 3 minutes for one shot. See the other...
360° Blue Flight - The Ascention
This is a purely artistic project. A collaboration of artist from Montreal using 24 cameras on a 360 ring in full darkness. We do long exposures in the dark to “paint” with light. All the cameras are triggered simultaneously. The average exposure time is between 2 and 3 minutes. See the more animated 360° at https://24×360.com/patrick-rochon Model: Sanchia...
New lights I’m playing with…
I’ve had special light built for me a while ago by my friend Farid Rener and finally started to use them. I asked Tomomi to pose for me. I first covered the whole face and hair with the lights but the human shape disappeared almost completely and it lost it’s balance so I simplified and did only...
Collaboration with Tomomi Morimoto
Collaboration with dancer and choreographer Tomomi Morimoto: https://www.tomomimorimoto.com/
Light Painting Sculptures - Four dimensional art
The pictures here below are exactly what was shot in studio with out any alteration or retouching. Click to open The Light Painting Sculptures series demonstrates the four dimensions of painting with light. In the video piece, you can actually see and experience the four dimensions at work. Light accumulates through space and time...
MORA - By Dominic Besner and the MX Gallery
For the live show Mora, I was asked by the MX Gallery to light paint the characters just before they went on stage. The challenge I had was to work quickly, each individual session was only between 5 and 10 minutes. Usually I take three hours to light paint. I said yes to the project...
Creative shoot with Jennyfer Desbiens + Anicko
Anicko ask me to shoot her new idea with model Jennyfer from Scoop agency. Anicko is responsible for the direction, make-up, hair, creating the head piece and some of the styling. We had Jennyfer bring some of her clothing to complete the styling. Jennyfer also has skills as a mime which enriched her presence and...
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 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...
Asa for Michael Buble
This was a new kind of job. The guys at Geodezik asked me to make a shoot for the live visuals on the Michael Buble tour. It’s inspired by the painting of Tamara de Lempicka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_de_Lempicka For this shoot I used Photoshop to create the blurs and to heighten the contrast so I can get the mood we...
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...
Light Painting Workshop NYC June 18 - The results
Here are the images from the workshop. Everyone took turns at light painting each other and towards the end of the day, we all had the chance to light paint our model Anya Thompson. Light painting by: Clay Howard-Smith Matthew McAllister https://mmcallister.com Marina Wonder Joel Chapman Lindsay Adler https://www.lindsayadlerphotography.com Aurora Crowley https://auroracrowley.com And while all this...
Fragments - test
Testing the new strobe flash that Aurora Crowley introduced me too, the Metz Megablitz. First I did some self portraits outside. After I tested indoors with Sandra Berube a performer and fire dancer. strobe from Metz.
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...
