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Hugh Pryor

Oxford
Experimental light artist
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My current work combines performance art and light painting to explore movement through long exposure photography.

I trained as an animator, creating movement from a sequence of still images, but with my photography I reverse the process by making movements into a still image.

A universe of textures and patterns opens up when you slice time up and spread it over the field of view - light reflects off the human figure in many ways - the shimmering reflections, the shadows and the masking of light, turning the subject into a living, moving paintbrush.

I study these strange effects from moving reflective surfaces and distil them through carefully controlled lighting, including LEDs with masks and filters, ultraviolet laser light onto fluorescent materials through special lenses, and microprocessor controlled LED arrays to change the spatial and temporal qualities of the light.

These tools allow me to explore time from the outside and the sensory narrative of being in motion from within, 

 

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