This winter, the Festival of Arts is presenting a free painting and photography exhibition in City Hall, “Light and Shadow: ...

Photographer Erez Marom travels the world to capture nature, wildlife and landscapes. In this essay, he reflects on the ...

Shadows, with few defining characteristics other than an edge, aren’t usually photogenic. But placed in the right context in relation to what casts them, and surrounded in a frame of contrasting light ...

When she was a little girl growing up in Northeast Ohio — if not before she had a camera, years before she would become serious about photography — Barbara Bosworth went on little nighttime walks with ...

New York City-based Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita casts light on seemingly-random objects to create surprising shadow art. At first glance, her work may appear to be the silhouettes of people, but ...

In the university town of Leiden, The Netherlands, 350 years ago this week, a prosperous miller and his wife celebrated the birth of a son destined to tower over the painters of the northern ...

“Scene of Souls in Hell” (19th century), donkey skin; Shaanxi, China (all images courtesy Museu do Oriente) LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations. Its ...

From left to right: Fucking Beautiful, 2002 (Snow White Version); The New Barbarians, 1997-1999; and Kiss of Death, 2003 Their works range from effervescent, large-scale light installations to graphic ...

Where there is light, there is shadow. In an odd way, shadows are essential to the best “white light paintings” by Mary Corse. Corse began the series in 1968, determined to find a way to physically ...

Shadow puppets are accompanied by dancing at Chris Myer's Fire in the Head performance, as part of French Institute Alliance Français's Crossing the Line festival (all photos by Aditi Jhaveri) ...