My material is light. The work focuses on energy rather than matter. My work is about the process as much as about the result. My process combines systems of calculation and change. I find my inspiration in mathematics and geometry; symmetry and chaos, both imagined and found in nature. All my work is analogue.

I use multiple exposures as a method. I am interested in repetition and continuation as concepts. Over the last ten years, I have repeatedly tried to find new ways to challenge the photographic process, that is, to avoid known solutions. Working only with light and light sensitive materials, I am fascinated by the fact that this process leaves nothing behind — no debris, no ruin — just an exposed negative.

Time has also been important in the work. In my recent "symmetrium" series, time reveals the process through thousands of exposures on a single negative.

I have been working with just light and abstract content since 2006.

Niko Luoma (b. 1970 in Helsinki) is graduated from the University of Art and Design in 2003.

EXHIBITION
New Wave Finland: Contemporary Photography from the Helsinki School
January 24 - April 2013
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue, 38th Street
New York NY 10016
USA