Week 3- Alan Jaras Photography

Alan Jaras' photography really captures your attenton. He photographs light but in a very unique way. He creates what he calls 'Refractographs'.
Here he describes the process of capturing of the pattern filled images - "...these 'Refractographs' are analogue images of the refraction patterns of a single beam of light passing through various transparent objects. This is a double refraction or recursive pattern - it is formed by passing the refraction pattern of one of my coloured plastic creations through a piece of glassware to make another, more complex pattern.The image is captured directly on to 35mm film, no camera lens is used ( this is a photogram using film instead of photographic paper), the transparent object replaces the lens. The tangled fragmented background consists of complex diffraction patterns. This is an analogue image and has not been computer generated.

His Flickr

This is the image he's speaking of here


Here are some more works of the refraction patterns taken with a 35mm camera from a beam of light passing through a transparent object.