The Connector recognizes exemplary photo work produced by SCAD students. This week’s featured photo belongs to first-year M.F.A. photography student, Oktawian Otlewski. Below he describes the process of lumen photography, the technique used to create this image.
“Lumen photography is a camera-less photographic process where various objects are placed on a piece of light sensitive photographic paper and exposed to UV light for several hours. The long exposure creates a chemical reaction in the paper and creates blue, violet, red, and orange hues not typically found in black and white photographic papers. Also, the objects block areas of the photographic paper from being exposed to light, leaving an eerie transparent silhouette of where the object was placed. I learned this technique in an Alternative and Historic Processes photography class this quarter. The inspiration behind my images is based on the concept that geometry originated from the study of nature and organic matter, in particular plants. In order to grow and flourish plants need a lot of exposure to sunlight. In an indirect way I am trying to make a statement or bring attention to how many complex things come from and originate from the power of something we take for granted every day. The Sun.”
Congratulations and thank you, Oktawian.
