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The Illuminated Bodies Series: Light as Paint
The Illuminated Bodies series represents a enlightening photographic exploration where body painting is achieved entirely through light projection. Robin Noorda transforms patterns, structures, and textures into luminous second skins that wrap around his models like living canvases. These projected surfaces might evoke the luxury of fur, the geometry of mesh, the permanence of tattoos, or the organic roughness of tree bark.
As the female figure steps into the gobo's embrace, she becomes both artwork and canvas—a living silver screen.
The projected patterns carry deeper meaning, symbolising the habits, repetitions, rules, and rituals that shape our lives. Through these luminous motifs, Noorda's work reveals both the constraints these patterns impose and the remarkable ease with which we can transcend them. Simultaneously, these light-painted designs can represent explicit identity markers: camouflage that conceals, fashion that adorns, or bold statements that declare.
The power of these visual forces proves illusory—temporary and surface-deep. The patterns vanish the instant the model steps away from the projection, moving not into darkness but into the freedom of her own natural light.
Yet in that ephemeral moment before departure, magic occurs. The collaboration between model and artist creates a fleeting work of art: poses illuminated by this modern magic lantern, where paintless body art is captured and preserved forever through photography.
The creative process unfolds across three distinct phases. First, Noorda crafts the pattern—designing, painting, or photographing the image to be projected, sometimes creating it live in Photoshop for immediate projection. Second, he captures the model within the interplay of projection and strategic lighting. Finally, extensive colour grading and post-production refinement transform the raw images into finished artworks.
Below are the works of 23/26 sessions and the Minh-Ly session of 2022.
For the 2018 - 2021 sessions of Illuminated Bodies, click here
Inquiries about signed and numbered limited edition prints can be obtained here.
The Book of all 21 sessions can be ordered here.
The Minh-Ly Book can be ordered here.
The Illuminated Bodies Series: Light as Paint
The Illuminated Bodies series represents a enlightening photographic exploration where body painting is achieved entirely through light projection. Robin Noorda transforms patterns, structures, and textures into luminous second skins that wrap around his models like living canvases. These projected surfaces might evoke the luxury of fur, the geometry of mesh, the permanence of tattoos, or the organic roughness of tree bark.
As the female figure steps into the gobo's embrace, she becomes both artwork and canvas—a living silver screen.
The projected patterns carry deeper meaning, symbolising the habits, repetitions, rules, and rituals that shape our lives. Through these luminous motifs, Noorda's work reveals both the constraints these patterns impose and the remarkable ease with which we can transcend them. Simultaneously, these light-painted designs can represent explicit identity markers: camouflage that conceals, fashion that adorns, or bold statements that declare.
The power of these visual forces proves illusory—temporary and surface-deep. The patterns vanish the instant the model steps away from the projection, moving not into darkness but into the freedom of her own natural light.
Yet in that ephemeral moment before departure, magic occurs. The collaboration between model and artist creates a fleeting work of art: poses illuminated by this modern magic lantern, where paintless body art is captured and preserved forever through photography.
The creative process unfolds across three distinct phases. First, Noorda crafts the pattern—designing, painting, or photographing the image to be projected, sometimes creating it live in Photoshop for immediate projection. Second, he captures the model within the interplay of projection and strategic lighting. Finally, extensive colour grading and post-production refinement transform the raw images into finished artworks.
Below are the works of 23/26 sessions and the Minh-Ly session of 2022.
For the 2018 - 2021 sessions of Illuminated Bodies, click here
Inquiries about signed and numbered limited edition prints can be obtained here.
The Book of all 21 sessions can be ordered here.
The Minh-Ly Book can be ordered here.
Mandala Bark
Fractal Symmetry
Tree Symmetry
Marble
Blue Marble
Inverted Tatoo
Iridescent
Snakey Scales
Vanish
Scales Lingerie
Mesh 2
Topography
Wood nerve
Mandala
Stone veins
Perspective
Palm shadow
Crackle
Scraperboard
Sculpture
Graphic Zebra
Panther maze
Hole in blue
Panther
Radius
Rorschach Milk
Thinking of Mandelbrot
Thinking
Might
Torso turbulence
Surrender
Metal marble
I L L U M I N A T E D B O D I E S
The Minh-Ly Session
Robin Noorda
The seasons in nature are the theme for this portfolio and the in France based model is Minh-Ly.
Inquiries about signed and numbered limited edition prints can be obtained here.
The Minh-Ly Book can be ordered here.
For the 2018 - 2021 sessions of Illuminated Bodies, click here
The Book of the 2018-2021 sessions can be ordered here.
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M I N H - L Y S E S S I O N G A L L E R Y
The Minh-Ly Session
Robin Noorda
The seasons in nature are the theme for this portfolio and the in France based model is Minh-Ly.
Inquiries about signed and numbered limited edition prints can be obtained here.
The Minh-Ly Book can be ordered here.
For the 2018 - 2021 sessions of Illuminated Bodies, click here
The Book of the 2018-2021 sessions can be ordered here.
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M I N H - L Y S E S S I O N G A L L E R Y
Maple Leave
Areca
Silent Force
Fern
Prunus
Autumn Blues
Branches
Victoria Amazonica
Leave Vein
Eve
Purple Beach
Autumn
Beech
Corypha Umbraculifera
Autumn Thought
Jungle
Elm
Fabric
Pop Water
Canopy
Purple Blue
Frost
Stained
Foliage
Duckweed
Red Bamboo
Ulmus Minor