Light Beings: Photographs by Louis Henri Pingitore at the Bedford Free Public Library

Compiled by The Bedford Free Public Library

“Light Beings” also known as “Color Scapes” are original photographic compositions by Louis Henri Pingitore. They reflect the fluid nature of light, color, shape and line when stripped of their original form.  The show is on view at the Atrium Gallery in the Bedford Free Public Library on Mudge Way through May 12.

“The [images] invite the viewer to consider other possibilities of the visual structure of our world and to inspire a more expansive way of perceiving reality, form, and color by highlighting what we see with what can be imagined. The process employed is an in-camera technique using a hand held camera, a single exposure and natural directional light. Photoshop has not been used, no effects have been added and minimal editing of color saturation and balance has been done post-production.

“While keeping the shutter open, my camera deconstructs a subject’s visual elements and reassembles them into alternate worlds of mutated structures and laws. The captured moments reveal a parallel universe in which reality and possibility commingle playfully until the shutter is closed. The merging and clashing of color and tone, line and shape, light and dark, push and pull to create a dynamic tension that resolve into peaceful, harmonic images. It is hoped that these images will give the viewer pause to consider what is possible in the visual structure of the world around us.”
— Louis Henri Pingitore

About the Artist

The son of a U.S. diplomat, Louis Henri Pingitore was born in 1963 in Paris, France. His childhood was spent living in far­flung outposts such as Mogadishu (Somalia), Oran (Algeria), Peshawar (Pakistan), and Port­au­Prince (Haiti), alternating with a year’s post at home base in Washington, D.C. As an adult, Pingitore has also traveled widely, visiting countries as diverse as Cuba, India, Chile, Indonesia and Kenya. In 1989, he made his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he now lives with his wife Oksana, their son Victor, daughter Zaida, and their two cats.

An avid photographer since childhood, Pingitore had a breakthrough in 2009 when he developed a new photographic expression of light. He has   studied extensively under the artist­instructor Remy Dubois at FACIL­Art, a Cambridge­based, French­American language and art collaborative. Dubois has praised his work as “hauntingly beautiful,” and declared that Pingitore “has created a new form of photography.” A review by Gallery 263 (Cambridge) has called Pingitore’s work “absolutely stunning.” Pingitore is a member of Cambridge Art Association, North Cambridge Arts Association and the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston. He has exhibited widely in the Boston Metro area in commercial galleries, libraries, hospitals, and high­profile office buildings since 2011. He founded Color Scape Studio in October 2012 where his work can be seen Tuesday through Friday, 1­6 pm or at other hours by appointment.

Louis Henri Pingitore – Color Scape Studio – [email protected]
5 Pemberton Street, Cambridge MA 02140  617-201-2597