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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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/
Breaking the ice, light painting in the new loft
It’s been a while since I’ve light painted something just for fun… After moving to the new loft two months ago I finally got to my lights out and kicked a few moves. The ice is broken, I’m creating again and the new loft is doing me some good. Here’s what came out and feel free to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Geneviève Borne, TV host
“What an honour to be light-painted by such a creative and talented artist such as Patrick Rochon! It was a fascinating and unforgettable experience.” -Genevieve Borne, Montreal march 2011 https://genevieveborne.com
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
