About the WorkÂ
Bodies & Light is an investigation of the human body through light, intimacy, and perception.
Every photograph was made under essentially identical conditions: a single point source of light against a completely black field. Only the subject changed. The participants were volunteers—ordinary people interested in the project and curious about how they might be seen.
Within these constraints, bodies emerge from darkness, sometimes immediately recognizable and sometimes reduced to unfamiliar fragments of light, surface, gesture, and form. The photographs move between intimacy and abstraction, clarity and ambiguity, the familiar body and something altogether less certain.
About the Artist
Bradley R. Milton is an artist, photographer, and architect whose work explores the body, intimacy, and perception. Working primarily with a first-generation light-field camera, he embraces its technical limitations to create small, tactile photographs that move between recognition and abstraction. His work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe and featured by PhotoVogue. In Sleep is his first photobook.