Yves Ullens :

Founding Member

Born in 1960 in Brussels (Belgium), lives and works in Brussels.

Photography is and has always been for me the ideal medium to express emotions. The particular energy brought by light and colour is vital both in my private and professional life.  Light, as the only form of energy we can see, presents itself as colour.  My photographs allow the viewer and the creator to explore feelings through abstraction. I see photography very much like a painter and I use my camera like a brush.

My world of photography has developed into six major themes: pictorial, kinetic, optic, urban traces, pure nature and LikeAPainting. Each body of work takes on its own rhythms.

Progressively since 2011, I have become a more global artist; by extending - with the help of my team - the possibilities of photography and associating it to other media and design applications. Photography will always be at the very heart of my work.  And, with the spirit of a scientist, I enjoy pushing its boundaries ever farther and further!

www.traqueurdelumieres.com

Niko Luoma :

Member

Born in 1970 in Helsinki (Finland), lives and works in Helsinki and Trieste.

I work at the studio. My photographic process is analogue. I use camera, light and film as my materials. As simply as possible, instead of one exposure, I use many overlapping exposures on one frame and one film.

I work inside of the camera rather than behind or in the front of it. The exposure itself becomes my content and the process itself manifests as images. Speed and decelerations are the seminal topics of my photography. Speed of seeing, speed of hearing, speed of working through the space. Space is speed decelerated into rhythm.

www.nikoluoma.net

Richard Caldicott :

Member

Born in 1962 in Leicester (England), lives and works in London.

Though he also produces drawings and prints, Richard Caldicott is best known for his photographs-abstract compositions of colors and geometric forms made from precise arrangements of Tupperware and other kitchen implements.

While his use of such a mundane consumer product as Tupperware to create his exquisite photographic images could be considered ironic, Caldicott seems more focused on formal considerations than conceptual hijinks. His photographs have been compared to the Color Field paintings of the Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.

His work is photographic, yet it is not figurative. By using the camera to record collages and constructions, Caldicott has carved himself a unique aesthetic niche that manages to reference iconic modernism without reverting to familiar forms.

www.richardcaldicott.co.uk

Luuk de Haan :

Member

Born in 1964 in Vlaardingen (Netherlands), lives and works in Bergen.

Although in many ways resembling abstract painting, photographs of the kind made by Luuk de Haan celebrate and delight in exploiting photography’s indexical grounding in a world of chemical and physical reactions to physical phenomena and, more recently, the optical potential inherent in digital, screen-based photographic manipulation.

They are documents of their own coming into being rather than the recording of a world outside the photograph. Despite their abstract, non-referential appearance, they are as ‘realist’ as photographs can get.

Emphasising sequential processes and long durations rather than instantaneous exposure, they return photography to a unique and individualised practice and away from reproductive economies of mass production.

www.luukdehaan.nl

Hanno Otten :

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Born in 1954 in Köln (Germany), lives and works in Köln.

Hanno Otten’s work probes the nature of color through extraordinary photograms made only with light from a color enlarger onto photographic paper. He manipulates color and light to create a modern palette of vivid hues.  Geometric patterns and shapes evoke a 1960s graphic sensibility.

As in his earlier work, Otten insists on the primacy of color, forgoing any literal and narrative imagery. His subject matter is light itself.

www.hannootten.de

Sebastiaan Knot :

Member

Born in 1970 in (Netherlands), lives and works in Rotterdam.

Sebastiaan Knot uses light as his material to create contrasts of color and form with wich the given space is beautified.

A composition of simple shapes is placed in the studio. Around the composition are set up studio lamps with different color filters. When shooting, the composition is illuminated simultaneously by all lamps.

This creates a shot in which a unique moment is captured with scattered light, shadows and mixed colors. The use of a lens adds optical illusion and questions what you see. There is no digital manipulation of the image. The works are unique or in limited editions.

www.sebastiaanknot.nl

Liz Nielsen :

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Born 1975, Ashland (Wisconsin, USA), lives and works in Brooklyn and Newburgh (New York, USA)

My artistic practice explores the boundaries of photography beyond traditional representation
or documentary form. My analog photograms, or ‘light paintings’ are created using a technique developed over the years through experimentation. In complete darkness, I expose light sensitive material dozens of times through a system of layers, and then process it through traditional photographic chemicals. Each image created is unique.

My photograms reflect a fascination with light as a tangible yet ethereal phenomenon. My work is about harnessing its incredible power to shape space and eclipse/collapse time, merging a multiplicity of realities into a finite yet dynamic form.

www.liznielsen.com