Gjon Mili is a well know photographer who works with long exposures. He is most famous pieces is his work with Picasso. Mili spent his career capturing long exposures in the studio working a long side Picasso to create beautiful light drawings. The method behind creating these photographs is using the camera to make long exposures. The photograph would have been taken in a dark studio with minimal lighting, during this time Picasso would have draw the vase using a light source. At some point during Picassos light painting Mili would have set off a single flash of light to capture Picasso in the background in the image.

The image is developed over a period of time, documenting the development of the image over time. This image by Mili shows the skill and elegance of Picasso’s creativity. This week in the studio I am going to be taking part in a workshop looking at Stroboscopic flash which is a simular studio set up to the one Mili would have used to create this famous image. I love the colour pallet this image presents, the warm glow of the light in which Picasso is painting with acts as a comforting night light in the darkness. Mili makes us as the viewer feel as if we are the canvas in which Picasso is painting onto. I want to create something simular in my stroboscopic flash workshop this week.