Photographer Research - Michael Bosanko

I have chosen to write about Michael Bosanko, he is a British photographer who discovered 'light graffiti' accidentally while taking a picture of the moon and since has expanded his style to involve different coloured lights to form different coloured figures.  His most famous work is his recreations of famous art works like The Scream by Edvard Munch and The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci but is also fairly famous for his work that takes inspiration from retro games and well know films like Pac-Man and The Matrix.  I feel Bosanko's work would be useful to me as I want to try doing 'light graffiti in different styles like using different colours or alternate light sources like sparklers, looking at Bosanko's work would mean I'm not flying blind so to speak.

 I really like this photograph as it takes a well know and iconic game that everybody loves and places the characters into reality, I think the use of colour in this piece really helps draw the eye through the photo focusing on the four main points (the three ghosts and Pac-Man).  I also feel that the lack of a plain/simple background really adds to piece and provides some sort of scale to it so viewers can roughly judge just how big the piece is.

I really like this photo as it has a kind of sic-fi look to it and looks quite surreal, the ghostly image of the person standing within the light makes it look really cool because it's almost like the light is emanating from him.

I like this photo as it takes a character from an iconic film and shows him from a different perspective as all of the unnecessary detail has been removed for the sake of the photograph.  The fact that it is has a relatively plain background makes it seem like it is a fairly small piece although I don't think that it is all that small it's just that there is nothing to compare it to.

I think this photo is really good it takes a drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci 'The Virtruvian Man' and gives it a modern twist by using the 'light graffiti',  the different colours used make it look like the air is burning while leaving the main body of the drawing quite clear and easy to see.

One thing I have learnt from Bosanko's work is to not be afraid to try things out no matter how random they may seem as some of them could end up looking pretty good.  Another thing that I have learnt from looking at Bosanko's work is that the background is fairly important especially when doing something like light drawing as you can usually see through the subject.

To summarise Bosanko is a highly professional artist with a lot of artist freedom and without fear of trying new and different things and getting stuff wrong.  his work mostly features bold and contrasting colours within each piece and takes inspiration from previously create media pieces piece from art to films to games as well as doing some seemingly random things.