Luc Demers, Color Cast #5, 2022, Inkjet print Layered under acrylic, 4 x 5 inches

I am interested in how we use photography to understand what we see, and how we see. For the past several years I have been exploring ways to make photographic color studies of ambient or available light. I have always found the light that spills into a room through a window captivating, particularly the ever-changing light that casts onto the ceiling. Reflected sunlight carries the colors of the world outside onto the pale paint of the ceiling and walls. These photographs were taken of the light cast on the ceiling above windows throughout my house. - L. D.

Luc Demers is an artist living in Southern Maine. In the early nineties he studied art at USM, completing the BFA program with a concentration in photography. In 1994, while continuing to pursue his personal work, he began working as a freelance photographer as well as shooting editorial work for The Casco Bay Weekly and The Maine Times. In 2010 he earned his MFA in Visual Art at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently, Demers is a working and exhibiting artist as well as a professor of photography at the University of Maine at Augusta teaching art.