STRIPES OF LIGHT

   

     Light it’s always there… across the curve of the road, in the corner of the eye, in the palm of the hand, inhabiting his native land, a wondrous stranger from distant lands… Light is never immobile, it’s the most tireless voyager in the universe. Capturing lights in the dark is like following the constant journey of light… with the singular privilege of tracing the paths and drawing the shapes with nothing more than tiny points of light…

     The images below are from the series Playing With Light. Only this time they are more minimal, details and cuts made in thick darkness or in a chaos of lights.

Playing with Light - Rainbow highway II, photography by São Ludovino. 

Playing with Light - Rainbow highway III, photography by São Ludovino. 

Playing with Light - The light path - photography by São Ludovino. 

Playing with Light - The light within the road - photography by São Ludovino. 

Playing with Light - Empirical ways - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Anti-corrosive - photography by São Ludovino.

 Playing with Light - Colloquial talk, photography by São Ludovino. 

Playing with Light - Divergent thoughts I - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Divergent thoughts II - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Dividing the darkness, photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Duet I - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Duet II - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Duet III - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Flowing freely, photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - From the deep, photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Illuminated Flight - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - In search of a blue sky, photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Into the blue, photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Intuition - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Just in time - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Learning to be a funambulist - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Making music - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Over inclined - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Rainbow highway I - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Rising visions - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Sky harp, photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Slide up - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Smashing the darkness, photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Soft embrace - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Suspended orbit I, photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Suspended orbit II, photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Swift runners, photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Chlorophyll and turqoise - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - The green ring I - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - The green ring II - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - The rope - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing With Light - The Passage of the Hours - 22:16, photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Vice versa - photography by São Ludovino.

PLAYING WITH LIGHT III

A Conversation About Darkness

     I'm not happy at all with the final result of my presentation / video Playing With Light I - The Conversation. It took me ten times more time to do it than I did to do the other two and the result is miles away from what I had in mind. It was supposed to have about 10 minutes, at the most, and it has almost 20 minutes...
    In the first version it really had about 10 minutes, but when I decided that the main soundtrack should be Mack the Knife interpreted by Sonny Rollins, everything changed completely. In the middle I had to add a music with a different mood to go along with the ideas and words. I chose My Building Disappeared by Philip Glass and I had to repeat it in that sequence of the presentation because the length of the track wasn't enough for the number of slides. And then, in the conclusion of the presentation I had to go back to Mack the Knife... Anyway, in spite of the mediocre result, I uploaded on Youtube and will stay here too.
   I'm deeply grateful to Maria Anisorac (a Romanian student) for inspiring me, for praising these unusual photographs of the serious Playing With Light and for allowing me to use our conversation at school to produce this...
    I also thank Vivian (a Brazilian student) for allowing me to photograph her and use 2 photographs in this presentation. I excluded all the frontal photographs where she could be identified because, in spite of her saying she wouldn't mind at all that I used her photographs, she never brought me the written authorization signed by her mother or father (she is underage).

 

 

 PLAYING WITH LIGHT I - The Conversation, photography by São Ludovino 

 

 

 Playing with Light - Expanding the Soul - photography by São Ludovino.

 Playing with Light - Almost there... - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Crossed orbits I - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Navigation - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Boomrang - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - A rainbow in the darkness - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Entwined Paths - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Entering the galaxy - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Border lines - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Echoes I - photography by São Ludovino

Playing with Light - Echoes II - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Escher behind the lines - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Filigrana - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Happy meeting I - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Happy meeting III - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Hermeneutics of a Finite Universe - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - High Speed Train - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Hoping and Hopping - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Imperceptible Changes in the Horizon - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Independence Day - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Intimate unknowns - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Kenny Burrell - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Night ship approaching - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Private Club - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Proclamation - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Protection Shield - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Riders on the Storm - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Rolling words - photography by São Ludovino.

 

Playing with Light - Semi-circles - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Shooting stars - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Strategic Movement - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Swans' Reunion - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Telegraphy through the sea - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - The story that it wasn't - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - The well-comers - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Angel's and Devil's Hair - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - A Purifying Bath - photography by São Ludovino.

Playing with Light - Zenith - photography by São Ludovino.