The Superb Sculptural Portraits by Alejandro Monge
Alejandro Monge, a Spanish multidisciplinary artist, creates stunning large-scale sculptures using materials like fiberglass, concrete, and pigments, drawing inspiration from Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro and John Singer Sargent’s refined brushwork to craft debossed faces that seem to emerge from the materials, producing a captivating play of light and shadow. Continue reading »
Capturing the Afterglow: The Celestial Art of Krakatoa’s Eruption in 1888
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa dramatically altered the skies worldwide, creating stunning sunsets and afterglows. Continue reading »
Relaxed and Calming Illustrations by Atey Ghailan, Taking Us Back to A Light-hearted Childhood
Atey Ghailan is concept artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently working as a Senior Illustrator for video game developer, Riot Games. Continue reading »
Bardula: Combining Art, Science, and Technology to Create Luminous Masterpieces
Bardula is the artistic pseudonym used by a creative couple based in Paris, whose passion for light, reflection, and new technologies has led them to create breathtaking kaleidoscopic artworks. Since their first collaboration on several pieces for the Baccarat Hotel in New York in 2014, Bardula’s unique luminokinetic art has captured the attention of art enthusiasts worldwide. Continue reading »
“Light”: Beautiful Winning Images Of WildArt Photographer of the Year 2021
LIGHT Gold Award Winner ‘Magic Spores’ – Bernhard Schubert
These are the winners of the ‘light’ category of the WildArt Photographer of the Year. The contest features 10 themed category contests run over the first 10 months of 2021. Continue reading »
Photographer Vitor Schietti Captures Dream-Like Forests of Falling Light
Brazilian photographer and filmmaker Vitor Schietti, captures enhancing illuminated foliage using light, and long-exposure techniques. Continue reading »
These Incredible Cute Rodents Change Color Under UV Light
Scientists have discovered a vivid porphyrin-based biofluorescence in two species of springhares, Pedetes capensis and Pedetes surdaster.
One of the more peculiar and rarest traits in the animal kingdom is the ability to glow in the dark. Some animals, including deep-sea fish and fireflies, are able to produce light in the visible spectrum. This is called bioluminescence, and it’s quite rare, but there’s another type of luminescence that some animals possess which we can’t see with our naked eyes. It’s called biofluorescence, and it’s the ability of an animal to glow under specific light conditions, like UV light. Continue reading »
“Sometimes Blue and Cold, Sometimes Hot and Intense”
“Sometimes blue and cold, sometimes hot and intense”, writes the mysterious photographer from South Korea on her Instagram account. Playing with light and shadows, she creates theatrical works, where still lifes and portraits intersect. A collection of most captivating stagings. Continue reading »
In Akureyri, Iceland, Heart-Shaped Stoplights Are a Daily Reminder to Smile
Sometimes, something as simple as seeing a glossy red heart pop up in our text messages is all it takes to brighten our day. For the people of Akureyri, Iceland, that little boost of oxytocin is not limited to the whims of loved ones wishing them well, however. All they have to do to get a flash of that universally uplifting symbol is take a trip to the nearest crosswalk. Continue reading »
Incredible Photos Of Violinist Jascha Heifetz Playing In Darkened Studio As Light Attached To His Bow Traces The Bow Movement In 1952
This photograph represents the meeting of two great 20th-century artists. Famed violinist Jascha Heifetz was known for his incredible technical precision, which made him the perfect subject for a series of light paintings by the photographer Gjon Mili. Continue reading »
Zach Alan’s Light Painting Photographs Are Fire – Literally!
Zach Alan is a multi-talented photographer, digital artist and educator currently based in Houston, Texas, USA. Zach focuses on light painting with fire, he shoots amazing portrait, architecture, events and landscape photography. The marvelous photos you see here were created in-camera without Photoshop. Alan’s approach involves a wireless remote and either a homemade light, and then he paints in the light effects behind his model. Continue reading »
“Dressed In Light”: Fine Art Photo Series By Dani Olivier
To shoot these stunning nude portraits, Paris-based photographer Dani Olivier dressed his models with nothing but light, using their bodies as a canvas, combined with a series of geometric patterns to celebrate the beauty of the female form. Continue reading »
“Field Of Light”: Bruce Munro Creates Colossal Light Installations Around The Globe
Back in 1992, when visiting Uluru in the Australian red desert, Bruce Munro felt “a compelling connection to the energy, heat and brightness of the desert landscape”. His ‘Field of Light’ is the embodiment of that experience. Continue reading »
“Reading The Road”: River Of 11,000 Glowing Books Flows Down City Street
Thousands of books spanned from sidewalk to sidewalk in Ann Arbor’s Literature vs Traffic installation, creating a space for quiet reflection on the value of pedestrian-friendly public spaces and the absence of noise pollution. The intersection of Liberty and State, a major juncture in this college town, was closed down for a day and night to allow the work to be deployed and enjoyed. Continue reading »
Gorgeous And Intriguing Series Of Photographs By Øystein Sture Aspelund Capturing Temporary Installations Of Smoke, Light & Fire, Set In Unspoilt Nordic Landscapes
The series “ÆON” is a collection of temporary installations of smoke, light & fire, set in unspoilt Nordic landscapes. Thematically, the series is examining our relationship with the landscape and natural habitat. It is focusing on how we, as humans, interact with our natural spaces and environments. Raising awareness and presence, the series is aiming to create a symbiosis with the installations and its surroundings, while at the same time reflecting on the so-called anthropocene epoch we live in today. Continue reading »
New Light Sculpture By Design Bridge And Gali May Lucas Highlights Our Obsession With Staring At Screen
Design Bridge has launched a topical new light sculpture in the heart of Amsterdam to highlight our obsession with technology and staring at screens. Absorbed by Light was created in collaboration with British artist Gali May Lucas and made especially for this year’s Amsterdam Light Festival. Continue reading »
Meet Raptor Lamp 2.0 – LED Light In Jurassic Park Style
Unusual, fun, and perfectly timed with the Jurassic World movie, the Raptor Lamp 2.0 is a playful adjustable lamp modeled to look like a Velociraptor. Designed to be an item worth collecting first, and a lamp later, the Raptor Lamp sits on your desk, looking positively ferocious with its moving jaw and adjustable limbs. Continue reading »
Artist Jung Lee Constructed A Series Of Neon Light Sculptures That Were Installed Against Cinematic Landscapes
Jung Lee was born in 1972 and currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea. She received her M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art, UK and her B.A. with honors in Photography from Kent Institute of Art & Design, UK. She received a B.A. with honors in Mass Communication & Journalism from Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. She most recently participated in 2012 Daegu Photo Biennale, the Incheon Women Artists Biennale, the 2010 Gwangju Biennale “10,000 Lives” under the direction of Massimiliano Gioni, the contemporary Korean photography exhibition “Chaotic Harmony” at the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). She has also shown at the Seoul Museum of Art and Gwangju Museum of Art. Continue reading »
Darkness To Light: The Moody And Bluish Photo Artworks Of Albin Sjödin
Albin Sjödin’s Instagram account takes us into the photographer’s imaginary world. His dark and bluish pictures play with reality, staging lonely and bewitching characters. Continue reading »
Artist Austin Light Makes Funny Collages From Boring Stock Photos
According to an artist: “I work in marketing, so I see a lot of stock photos. I thought it would be fun to add animals and descriptions to some of the strange images I found. So I did that, every day during the month of May.” Continue reading »
This Magic Light Shelf By ilsangisang Always Shines A Spotlight On Things
Designer Jong-su Kim of Korean studio ilsangisang, has created a lamp that has a built-in shelf for displaying decorative items. Continue reading »
Meet Light Ragaz, A Spectacular 3D Projection Onto Natural Environment
The multimedia event Light Ragaz uses cutting-edge technology to project 3D effects onto the structures and formations of the rocks of the Tamina Gorge with millimeter precision. Continue reading »
Signs Of Life: Surreal Light-Painting Photography By Eric Paré
With a camera remote in one hand and a light-tube in the other, it only takes one second for Canadian photographer Eric Paré to shoot his “light-painting” photographs. Over the years, Paré has traveled the world from Dubai to San Francisco snapping some truly incredible photographs along the way. With their colorful and kinetic lighting, the photos take on an ethereal quality. Continue reading »
Through The Light And Darkness, Off The World And Back With Photographer Gueorgui Pinkhassov
“I really take a lot of photographs” says Gueorgui Pinkhassov. “But I only show the ones that suddenly speak to me; that come alive when I look at them.”
Gueorgui Pinkhassov was born in Moscow in 1952. As a Russian who acquired French citizenship, Pinkhassov has lived in Paris for many years. Pinkhassov became interested in photography at the end of secondary school. He studied at the VGIK Moscow Institute of Cinematography from 1969 to 1971 and then worked in the Mosfilm studios in the cameraman team before becoming a set photographer. Continue reading »
Photographer Captures Otherworldly Light Pillars In Northern Ontario
In northern Ontario, residents are used to viewing the Northern Lights, but tech YouTuber Timothy Joseph Elzinga was in for a big surprise when he gazed out his window last Friday night. Awoken by his 2-year-old son at 1:30 am, Elzinga was about to settle back into bed when he noticed a strange sight—moving, shimmering lights beaming up from the ground outside! Continue reading »
