Standing at the edge of the winter forest. After the storm, what’s left is the thick white blanket underneath our feet and the heavy arching branches surrounding us. Everything is quiet. The forest is in a peaceful slumber. The crisp & cold air reminds us of the fleeting nature of this moment, and the need to make the most of it before our bodies get too cold. And yet, we’re calm, feeling lucky to witness this serene scene and knowing we’re more resilient than before in the face of nature’s power.

Night Reflection 10.10

This series is the result of a creative process that has been evolving over the past 8 years. Crafting light by hand to create imagery that magnifies reality in a single exposure is at the core of our projects. These outdoor tube light-painting creations testify to the importance of two things that inspire my photography journey: a love for light-painting as an artistic expression and a love for landscapes that evoke the vastness, mystery, and beauty of nature. Each image is the result of a long exposure during which Kim, a contemporary dancer, and my creative partner, stays still while I move the light behind her. Combining in a singular way light-painting and landscape photography, the process looks like a performance of dancing light and human stillness in the silence of the night.

Urban escape is a chapter dedicated to our rare artistic explorations in cities. Urban areas represent an abundance of energy, movement and lights that we capture from our personal perspective. Thousands of city lights unifying to create an entity that becomes our luminous background. Its glow and energy is merging with our ephemeral traces of light.

Acting as a purpose to travel, our projects keep us learning and moving forward. Since 2015, our journey through outdoor tube light-painting has been giving us the opportunity to push our limits and stay outdoors for long hours through the cold, the wind, the mosquitoes, and other unpredictable challenges to experience, create, and capture unique moments of magic after sunset, seeking to inspire others to go explore and play with lights. Just as every trace of light made by hand is unique and impossible to replicate, so is every night sky we capture. As we shape traces of light and partially reveal the beauty of our environment, we try to create a slightly altered perspective of reality where reflection is implied.

Night Reflection Twelve by Kim Henry & Eric Paré

In the silence of a calm night in the desert. As we were gazing up and around to behold the vastness & magnificence of the night sky in the dunes, we knew we were lucky to be there. There was no wind. Not a single sound around. Except for our own breaths & heartbeats. Eric’s countdown was a whisper in the dark, but it was so calm he didn’t have to say anything anymore for us to be connected. We were there for hours, creating with our light beneath this river of stars that has been capturing the human imagination forever.

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Eric Paré & Kim Henry