Luminous Artefact Photography
With camera in hand, Luminous Artefact has travelled far and wide, capturing the sublime and curious cultural treasures of Europe, the temples of Asia, and the landscapes of Australia.
Luminous Artefact believes in the power of beautiful, enchanting, sublime and curious images to inspire, console and transport the viewer.
Luminous Artefact's photography is a small contribution to the vast ongoing stream of human creativity that has produced so many wondrous cultural treasures throughout the ages.
The Hellenic Landscape
The Hellenic Landscape refers to the enduring influence of the classical world of Greece and Rome on the architecture, sculpture and artefacts of European cities from ancient times to now.
“The Hellenic Landscape, or the classical world, is not some sealed-off, distant object of historical curiosity, but an active presence, fluid in its boundaries of time and space.”
The classical world of Greece and Rome have been a significant inspiration for European artists, architects and city planners, resulting in the numerous beautiful and enchanting Hellenic inspired cultural treasures, ancient and modern, found in European cities.
Luminous Artefact travels far and wide to explore the ancient ruins, secular and sacred architecture, public spaces and museums of Europe, seeking encounters with the Hellenic Landscape to photograph.
Cemetery Memorial Sculptures
Luminous Artefact has travelled to many remarkable European cemeteries to photograph beautiful memorial sculptures.
European memorial sculpture is a legacy of love and an exquisite artistic expression of mourning and commemoration.
With memorial sculpture now essentially a forgotten and lost art form, it is a worthy aim to appreciate and preserve these significant cultural treasures.
A Philosophy of Photography
“Expressions without doctrine, images of the endless moments of the world. ”
“When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
Then don’t leave until you have captured its essence.”
“Photography is not about the thing photographed.
It is about how that thing looks photographed. ”
“Everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a photogapher mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes to life through light or by its surroundings.”
“The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.”
“For photographers in the Stieglitz tradition, seeing implies both a transforming recognition of the ordinary and a sharper, grander vision of the extraordinary.
They move in the world as if it might at any moment emerge from routine and reveal itself with utmost power. ”
“The state of mind of the photographer while creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exits only at special times, namely when looking for pictures.
For those who equate “blank” with a kind of static emptiness, I must explain that this is a special kind of blank.
It is a very active state of mind, really, a very recpetive state of mind, ready at an instant to grasp an image, yet with no image pre-formed in it at anytime.”
“I don’t have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.”
“Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. ”
“Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon.
We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is.
The artist is a professional see-er.”
“The photographer’s art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.”
“It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of the world in which they live; and what they create, or better perhaps, brings back, are the objective results of their explorations.
The measure of talent—of genius, if you will—is the richness they find in such a life’s voyage of discovery and the effectiveness with which they embody it through their chosen medium. ”
Luminous Artefact also helps people develop their creativity, and follow their creative path.
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