Light Palettes (2015)

Project statement

From ancient Greek, the word “photography” literally means drawing with light. This essence of film-based photography is rooted in its photochemical process, unlike a digital image that is represented by tiny little dots known as pixels. Acknowledging the inherent difference between film and digital image renditions, in this series I intended to demonstrate a shared approach to producing colors with light.

At first, geometric shapes in the three primary colors of light (i.e. red, green, and blue) are created on a computer. The desired graphic patterns, displayed by an LCD monitor, are then captured on color reversal film. Through multiple exposures, a photochemical process known as “additive color mixing” effectively blends light with various wavelengths together, producing different corresponding colors (i.e. yellow, cyan, magenta, and white) in the overlapping sections of the shapes that become visible only in the developed film.