A stunning new light painting series from photographer Keow Wee Loong, who previously trekked into an active volcano to shoot self-portraits, transforms human beings and subway tunnels into glowing aliens and hyperspace vortexes. Eschewing the standard tricked-out DSLR, Loong captured these beauties with nothing but a smartphone, taking advantage of some clever new settings designed specifically to make light painting more accessible.
Loong used a Huawei P8 to capture the photos, spending about seven minutes of long-exposure painting on each work. The photographer tells The Creators Project, the two-part series focuses both on humanity and on the environments we exist within. “Rooted is about modern society living in urban city, where we are constantly surrounded by artificial light,” Loong explains. “The flames show anger around a woman tangled in artificial lights. Time vortex is about the feeling of being of being one with the speed of light. It shows the hectic lifestyle of people living in a big city, where we are constantly moving so fast that we forget the important things in our lives.”
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Check out both Time vortex and Rooted below:
Rooted (2015)
Rooted (2015)
Rooted (2015)
Time Vortex (2015)
Time Vortex (2015)
Time Vortex (2015)
Time Vortex (2015)
See more of Keow Wee Loong’s work on his Facebook page.
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