Text Inspired Lighting Design
Model: Henry Whitesitt
Lighting Design: Camilla Kress
Photography: Camilla Kress
EOS ETC Lighting Program
This excerpt is about Marie LeBlanc, a young girl who lost her eyesight at six years old. Maries father helps her maintain a level of independence. Her admiration is reflected through the colorful imagery she associates with him.
Lighting to be consistent with the narrative. In order to achieve this, I posed my subject to appear in dim lighting, with the colors associated with the father being placed strategically. This being done in hopes to capture Maries dwindling eyesight and visual memory of her father.
“She has no memories of her mother but imagines her as white, a soundless brilliance.
Her father radiates a thousand colors, opal, strawberry red, deep russet, wild green; a smell like oil and metal, the feel of a lock tumbler sliding home, the sound of his key rings chiming as he walks. He is an olive green when he talks to a department head, an escalating series of oranges when he speaks to Mademoiselle Fleury from the greenhouses, a bright red when he tries to cook. He glows sapphire when he sits over his workbench in the evenings, humming almost inaudibly as he works, the tip of his
cigarette gleaming a prismatic blue.”
Excerpt from
All the Light We Cannot See
(Doerr 2014)
