Fluorescence Portraits

The Fluorescence Portraits are a project exploring the physical and mental-affective properties of fluorescent lighting on live subjects. Each subject is brought into a darkened room and confronted with a fluorescent lightsource. As they gaze into the tube over a period of several minutes, a progression occurs that shifts the subject's gaze from energized to bleak, zombie-like, and alienating.

These images are selected from a pool of approximately 40 subjects. I am currently working on new projects in this vein that focus around the idea of Light as an Aggressor.

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Silver Gelatin Prints on Fibre Paper - 8x10" each

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