Visual Inspiration/Moodboard

My main area of inspiration for the Zine is night, street photography. I want to photograph the night life of St. Helier in a way that makes it seem very lonely and isolated. I also want to explore lighting painting and car trails; I think they could give my photographs a lot more depth and it may be an interesting way to connect photographs and experiment with them. Though I don’t wish to make all my photographs light paintings – I want to make a stark contrast between ones that involve light trials and ones that do not. To achieve a light trial effect, the user

Artist Research – Micheal Bosanko

Light painting photographer Michael Bosanko has been capturing light since 2004. He discovered light painting on accident, Michael says this of his moment of discovery duringg an interview, “the moon formed part of the scene, but the camera shake caused the moon to make a streak. My curious mind clipped the camera from the tripod and, hand held, I attempted to write my partner’s name using nothing but the moonshine and the movement of the camera in my hand, and I had success. As soon as I returned home, I adopted the same principles but with torches, and I’ve been hooked ever since.” Ever since that moment Michael has had great success with light painting photography, he has created images for several commercial clients and been published in numerous magazines.

His website : www.michaelbosanko.com

I want to base my zine off Bosanko’s work; use light trails to create interesting compositions around St. Helier at night. I plan to complete a photoshoot in St. Helier during a very late hour to limit the amount of people present; this would in term ruin the illusion and effect of certain lights.