Hands On Time - Magazine Interview from India
A new article just got published in Hands On Time (HOT), a magazine from India. https://www.handsontime.in/haute-look/patrick-rochon-master-of-light/629/ 1. How did you first get interested in the theme of light? I guess it’s been through learning photography. I started light painting in 1992 and it slowly grew within me. I increasingly became fascinated by light paining. I...
INSPIRED LIGHT in collaboration with INFINITI.
Here is the latest art project I did with Infiniti cars in Dubai. We transformed three cars into moving light painting brushes to create a new kind of image. The real inspiration for light painting comes when you discover that light is a medium of infinite qualities when you paint with it you create real...
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...
CAPTURING LUMINOUS THOUGHTS
Whooo, I’m feeling so strange right now, my vision is all blurry and my body aches like I’m going to faint. That was so strange and wild. Tonight after taking a bath I did a kind of OBE through this portal in some kind of dark space, I was out of this world. For...
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....
Exodeus - Skin care
For the last year, I’ve been working with Exodeus natural skin care as an Art Director and photo-light painter. Exodeus is an amazing line of natural and organic luxury skin care products. https://exodeus.com In these photo of Deva Exodeus, the creator of the Exodeus line, I used 100% light painting to create her beauty light...
LP WORKSHOP - Calgary - March 8.
Discover the fascinating world of Montreal artist Patrick Rochon, award winning light painter with over 20 years of experience. It’s open to everyone, photographers, painters, artists, or just people who wants to learn something creative! Reserve your spot https://www.endeavorarts.com/2014/02/08/light-painting-workshop/ To Bring: -SLR camera equipped to do long exposure (30 seconds minimum). On Bulb setting, remote...
LITEBLADES - Light tools
LITEBLADES are available at the Light Painting Shop: https://thelightpaintingshop.com/15-liteblades The new generation of light painting tools I’ve design. The seven LITEBLADES are designed to make amazing and beautiful light trails. Used for light grafitty (lightgraff), portraits, abstracts, light painting Katas and various light painting backgrounds. The LITEBLADES are specially made to fit with the KLARUS RS11 and the Klarus XT-11 flashlight...
Interview in PROFESSIONAL LIGHTING DESIGN magazine.
Beautiful German magazine and blog dedicated to lighting design and creation related to light. He’s the interview I got and the message behind my work. https://pld-m.com/von-schimmernden-koerpern-und-patrick-rochon/?lang=en Of light-emitting bodies and the work of Patrick Rochon Human bodies literally glow. This is because of the ultraweak photon emissions our bodies generate, which are known for the...
2nd International Light Painting Exhibition - Paris
After our first show in Moscow 2012, the Light Painting World Alliance had it’s second show in Paris at l’Espace Pierre Cardin. This video captures light painting now, where it’s at and who we are as a community: See the full report here: https://www.lpwalliance.com/index2.php?type=eventview&id=51
I got the cover and an article in the 6229 Magazine
I got the honour of being the first artist on the cover of the new magazine 6229. This an innovative and bilingual magazine on photography and video in Québec created by Lozeau. Get your copy here: https://www.lozeau.com/en-CA/products/accessories/books/6229/ When did you become a light painter? In 1997, I left Montreal for Tokyo. At the time, I was...
Super Chromatic
(Click to see the full picture!) A collaboration with LOCAL B hair salon. Sexy beauty lighting created by hand with light painting. On this project I challenged myself to create and push basic beauty white light to show the hair, makeup and qualities of the model while keeping it sexy, edgy and fashionable. This...
EXODEUS - Emanate the beauty within
I’m now the art director and the image maker of EXODEUS. Exodeus is a skin care line based on Alchemy. The products are beautiful, holistic, natural organic. It is still rare and the demand is increasing for hi-end potent skin care product. The idea behind the line is to emanate the beauty within. To nourish...
I got a great interview with NIKON.
To see the complete version with the pictures, click here: https://blog.iamnikon.com/en_GB/d-slr/light-painting/ Text from the interview: PAINTING WITH LIGHT: PATRICK ROCHON Patrick Rochon is a Canadian photographer who specialises in shooting the movement and effects of light. We spoke to him about this technique and how he gets his stunning results. Tell us a bit about...
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:...
Download the workshop from Learnster
Updated Sept. 11 2014. You can buy and download the full workshop here: https://learnsterpro.com/product/patrick-rochon/ October 1st and 2nd, I gave a free online live light painting workshop. Two days of step by step for beginners and advance light painters. I shared lot’s of secrets on how to get great sharp portraits with basic face lighting and...
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...
Light Painting Award Contest ’13
Updated 01/2014 The winners are here: https://www.lightart-photography.de/lp-award/ A must see, the 100 best selected pieces here: https://www.lightart-photography.de/lp-award/gallery/ ———- Take part in the 1st international Light Painting Award. With over 8000 EUR in prizes from Canon, Zeiss, Manfrotto, LED LENSER, Lucroit, Novoflex Submit up to two of your best photographies here: www.lightart-photography.de/lp-award You still have time up to 15...
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...
250 Light Paintings in 6 minutes - SLIDE SHOW
Here is a slide show I put together. It gives you a general idea of my work in the last years. With the great music of Pantha du Prince, titled Lay In a Shimmer. panthaduprince.com Special thank you to all the models and collaborators!
Red Bull + Snap! Orlando + Light Painting
MOTION TO LIGHT This is a collaborative project between Red Bull, Snap! Orlando, the wakeboard athletes: Mike Dowdy, Adam Errington, and Dallas Friday and myself as a light painter. It is purely experimental, none of us ever did a project like this before. We mixed sports and technology to create art. The movement of the athletes...
Workshop Light Painting - 9 juin 2013
Les sources lumineuses longues. Utilisations et effets Journée intensive dimanche le 9 juin 2013 Par Patrick Rochon, Maître Light Painter Places limitées pour 8 participants. 120$ pour la journée. Trois volets seront explorés cette journée de création: 1- Les secrets du néon. Sur un produit commercial et sur un modèle. 2- Les effets du fil...
