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Texts, a short CV and 10 works in high resolution by Willians Gomes, for editorial use with credit. The images and texts are also in a single file.
Download the full kit .zip · 7.3 MBTexts, a short CV and 10 works in high resolution by Willians Gomes, for editorial use with credit. The images and texts are also in a single file.
Download the full kit .zip · 7.3 MBBiography in the third person. The statement is the artist's voice, in the first person.
Willians Gomes was born in Lorena, São Paulo, in 1979, and lives in Atibaia. He has photographed since 1994, when his mother gave him a Yashica film camera, and has worked professionally since 2006. He has been drawing with light since 2009: by hand, in real landscape, in a single exposure, with no digital compositing.
Willians Gomes was born in Lorena, São Paulo, in 1979, and grew up in Ilhabela. He has photographed since age 15, in 1994, when his mother gave him a Yashica film camera, and has worked professionally since 2006. He spent the 2000s in Paraty, photographing inns and hotels and working as a stagehand for Teatro Espaço, with whom he toured Brazil.
He has been drawing with light since 2009, when he took part in the workshop Luz profana desconstrói o real, led by Gal Oppido at the 5th Paraty em Foco festival. In 2012 he deepened his practice in a workshop with Renan Cepeda, a pioneer of light painting in Brazil, at the same festival, which he attended in nine editions, from 2006 to 2014.
He works at night with the shutter open, drawing with light inside the frame in a single exposure, with no digital compositing and no artificial intelligence, in real landscape rather than in the studio. His portfolio holds 116 original works in five series: Portais de Luz, Seres de Luz, Escrita de Luz, Retrato de Luz and Céu Profundo. In 2019 he made a working trip to Bhutan and India. He also keeps a contemplative photography practice, Fotografia Meditativa. He lives and works in Atibaia, São Paulo.
I work in the dark. I open the shutter and draw with light, by hand, inside the frame, in a single exposure, with no digital compositing and no artificial intelligence. What the camera records is not a scene. It is a duration.
Each image happens only once. The gesture does not repeat, the night does not repeat, and no work can be made again.
I make the works outside the studio, in real landscape: forest, beach, mountain. The light I build has to live with the light that was already there, and the place stays visible in the image. There is almost always someone inside the drawing: family, friends, people from the place.
I have been photographing since age 15, and drawing with light since 2009.
He has photographed since 1994 and has been drawing with light since 2009. He lives and works in Atibaia, São Paulo.
Files 2400 px wide, two works from each series. Captions follow title · series · year.
