Christopher Lee Martin

All of my work is a constant exploration. Recently, the journey begins with the use of light and how light utilizes space through the pictorial plane. In these photographs, I use various materials to refract light. I use the camera like a director, by composing each image before the camera; and when I see a wonderful composition I take the picture. Each picture can never be made exactly the same. I approach photography from a painter’s point of view. Light or lumia photography can be used as not only a medium of itself, but therefore can be used to create its own objectivity. "In other words, light is a body of its own making".

I am interested in expressing my work through the use of synaesthesia, or the blending of the senses. My usage of white, red and colored filtered beams are used not only to provide hue to the images but also show a different set of perceptual experiences; through the use of different color relationships. Lumia and color are a mysterious phenomenon that varies from individual, cultural, psychological and spiritual meaning; it is what brings people together through visual diversity.