Hasta La Ideas

Is tracing cheating? Not when you’re innovative photographer Janne Parviainen, who “had this mad idea of tracing entire rooms with one LED” while leaving the camera shutter open. The Helsinki-based artist’s ghostly recordings resemble a sort of low-res, organically imperfect laser scan of spaces and the people who inhabit them. They also bring to mind the contour drawings that art students grind out during Foundation.

No post-processing is used; Parviainen simply calculates his settings, opens the shutter, then spends “a few seconds to hours, depending” tracing a room with his LED to create images straight from the camera lens.

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