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...
Campaign for the Ministère de la santé (Health Ministry) in Quebec
This was envisioned by the Kbs+p agency https://www.kbsp.ca. A campaign to encourage youth to live their passions intensely and naturally. They wanted light painting to show the movements, the energy, the intensity. We shot in a studio with flashes and did light painting during the long exposure. In the case of the hip hop dancers I...
Sport shoes - Testing
For a while I’ve been thinking of shooting sports items and a sport concept with light energy using light painting. So I started doing some tests with the help Victorine Yokthot and Sylvain Lavoie. Sylvain built a black metal rack to hold up the shoe in different positions.
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...
PBS - Light Painting Interview
This was shot last June while I was in New York for the workshop with Aurora Crowley. Light Painting has been growing significantly for the last decade, now PBS a main stream media channel is talking about our unique form of art. This is an honor and a victory vor all the light painters out...
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...
Honda Airwave Modulo, Japan 2007
This project was done for a web campaign for a division of Honda. We took three days of shooting in a car studio shooting photo and video with light painting. This was used for a web interactive video, wall paper and screen savers on the Honda website. In collaboration with Unicon AD: https://www.unicon-ad.jp/
Publications & Magazines, Japan 1998-2003
These are some of the works that was published (magazine, poster, CD jacket) while I was in Tokyo. The first shooting I did was for ZYAPPU an art and fashion magazine written in roman character using Japanese words. We did a fashion series shot from the ceiling. With 2 opposite characters on each page. Male...
PARASUCO Fashion Campaign
This is a campaign I did for Parasuco. We shot in studio and improvised all day sometimes giving lights to the models so they would do light painting themselves. I just told them to jump, dance and have fun. I used a flash-ring + a Canon Mark II and did 3 second exposures. Models:...
Usher Tour - Visuals
This content was originally created to use for the visuals of the Usher tour 2010-2011* In collaboration with Geodezik: Olivier Goulet, Gabriel Coutu-Dumont, Etienne Cantin, Terry Godin, Alexandre Casabon www.geodezik.com Producer: Derek Kennedy Assistant producer: Martin Lamirande Model & Stylist: Cristina Acevedo https://www.cristinaacevedo.com Light Painting by Patrick Rochon and his team: Victorine Yok, Sylvain Lavoie Filmed and edited by : Victorine Yok Special...
David Bujo, musician & composer. CD Jacket
“It’s not that he only paints with light, it’s that he inspires, just from the light he creates. I HAD to work with Patrick Rochon and I am grateful towards our collaboration.” -David Bujo, Montreal 2010 “Ce n’est pas seulement qu’il peint avec la lumière, c’est qu’il inspire juste dans la manière avec laquelle il...
