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...
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...
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!
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...
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...
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...
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...
Test shoot with makeup artist Julie Begin
Julie Begin was the first professional makeup artist I collaborated with when I was still studying photography in 1991. In 2009 when she was in Montreal, we did this test shoot. What impress me the most was the feedback she gave me on my light painting. As a makeup artist she’s always looking at faces...
