Dryden Goodwin
This photograph was taken and created by Dryden Goodwin, he did this by using a slow shutter speed and a laser pen to draw on the persons face while he was taking the picture.
Dryden Goodwin is a British artist, born in 1971, this piece of work was displayed on exhibition in 2008. The exhibition was called 'Cast' and the series of work was called 'Caul', the exhibition also included four other series of works.
Dryden's work is a combination of photography, film, large-scale, screen-based installations and soundtracks. For this piece of work he photographed candid portraits of people sitting on buses while he was travelling around London, he drew onto the photographs as they were being taken using a laser pen.
I found this image on his website: http://www.drydengoodwin.com/
I like this photograph because it inspired me to try some light painting of my own, his photographs were taken digitally this meant he could then edit them afterwards, i think that this made his photographs better than if he had done them on film.
Going through the photographs on his website I read that this series of work is considered to have demonic associations as it represents a child at birth that has demonic powers of some kind.
The framing of the subject in this photograph is pretty much centred in the frame, the web pattern made by the laser pen could be symbolic of blood vessels or raw tissue.
A section from a critic's review on the series; 'It is as if you can see a diagram of the skull and brain within'
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