“Lightmark,” the body of work by the German artists Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke, was created by photographing moving light sources at night. The resultant ethereal images inhabit a dramatic and often eerie landscape. Long exposures, up to an hour in length, are required to allow torchlight to take form and for the very low level of ambient light, usually from the moon, to illuminate the scenery. Seen through the viewfinder, the landscape often appears as solidly black. Using a medium-format camera for their photography, Goepel and Warnecke choose not to use any digital manipulation and instead regard physical challenges as part of the creative process. The couple travel all over the world in search of locations whose secret nature they seek to reveal through their “light paintings.”
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“We are a couple, two people who like to be outdoors. That’s where we met, that’s where we started to work together and that’s where we’ll continue to be. When we met, Cenci was a painter and Jens was engaged in filming, editing and animation: Maybe photography was somehow in between.”
