Painting with light

Stars twinkle, lights flash. Light is incredibly fast and extremely fleeting. Photography captures light and shadow and fixes movement and time. Paintings, on the other hand, are static images with figures, lettering or signs on a solid background. How can you combine the two? How can you fix a trail of light? Photography makes it possible. 

Light is a popular theme in photography. Many modern artists have already practiced light experiments and created surreal images with the help of simple light sources. In our photo workshop, we will take a closer look at this light magic and capture it photographically. After a brief theoretical introduction to light photography and long exposure, the young participants will immerse themselves in darkened rooms and paint abstract figures, shapes and lettering - using only light and a camera. They can bring different light sources to the workshop and experiment with their own flashlights, bicycle rear lights or fairy lights.

Eva Gjaltema studied cultural studies at the University of Amsterdam and photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries and festivals (Fotomuseum Den Haag, Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden and Rencontres d'Arles). She works mainly with photography, (analog) collage and mixed techniques and deals with themes such as family relationships and identities.

Sandra Haselsteiner studied Fine Arts and Audiovisual Media at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Utrecht University of the Arts. She works as a freelance artist and illustrator in Berlin. Her drawings and collages have been published in ZEIT, Tagesspiegel, Hanser Berlin, dtv, Stiftungswelt, chrismon, Das Magazin and Emotion. Her work is also regularly represented in exhibitions. The theme of her artistic work is the patterns of our perception, shaped by experiences that influence us and our relationship to the environment.