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From the ancient Greek, the word photography literally means “drawing with light.” The essence of film-based photography lies in its photochemical process, in contrast to the digital image, which is composed of tiny dots known as pixels. Recognizing the inherent differences between film and digital image rendition, this series seeks to demonstrate a shared approach to generating color through light.

Initially, geometric shapes in the three primary colors of light (red, green, and blue) are created on a computer. These graphic patterns, displayed on an LCD monitor, are then captured on color reversal film. Through multiple exposures, a photochemical process known as additive color mixing blends light of varying wavelengths, producing secondary colors (cyan, magenta, and yellow) as well as white in the overlapping sections of the shapes—effects that become visible only in the developed film.