Eric Paré is a Montréal-based visual artist working across light-painting, multi-camera bullet-time photography, and 3D Gaussian Splatting.,He creates long-exposure images by moving a handheld light source in front of a camera, often synchronizing up to 176 cameras to record a single instant of light from every angle.,Much of his work is made with his creative partner Kim Henry.
Paré began multi-camera work in 2011, and by 2012 he and Henry were using a 24-camera rig to craft their light-painting technique from scratch.,He and his team built up the Xangle Studio in Montréal into a roughly 400-camera facility that includes the 176-camera rig used for his circular light-painting captures, producing commercial visuals for brands including Adobe, Audi, Intel, and Microsoft.,In the work, Paré paints with a handheld tube or flashlight in a darkened studio while Henry, described on his site as the dancer he collaborates with, holds still or moves through an exposure of several seconds.,Paré and Henry taught as Masters at PhotoPills Camp in 2018, under the banner of their project Signs of Light.
Paré has released several of his light-painting and bullet-time works as NFTs.Night Reflection, a collection of 108 outdoor long-exposure images made with Henry, was released on the platform Sloika.,Radiance, a series of 360-degree long-exposure pieces captured on the 176-camera rig, began in 2021 with Radiance 01 on SuperRare.Vanishing Point, captured at the Xangle Studio in 2022, used 176 cameras and two smoke machines to freeze the instant before two clouds of smoke collided.In 2023 the pair made Cosmic Coincidence, a diptych photographed in Bolivia pairing a giant sunset and moonset, released as an edition of 117 tokens on ClickCreate.That year Paré also made Exposure 008 for Click Mint Pass, a collaborative project in which each entrant photographs with the same instant camera in response to the previous contributor, following an entry by FVCKRENDER.,Made in February 2023 and minted in January 2024, Darkness Gradients appeared as part of the Xangle Memes collection in 6529's Meme Lab.,
His studio's multi-camera and photogrammetry setup also helped scan models in 3D for Samuel Arsenault-Brassard's augmented-reality fashion project Pretend Play, created with designer Rosalie Lemay.
