Christopher Mahlmann |
Christopher Mahlmann is a lighting, scenic, and projection designer and the Technical Director for the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Grand Valley State University. Based in Grand Rapids Michigan his credits include projection, set, and lighting designs for Grand Valley State University, The Miss Michigan Pageant, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Heritage Theatre, The Jewish Theatre of Grand Rapids, The Howmet Playhouse, Cassell Dance, Aquinas College, and Grand Rapids Community College,. He has a Bachelor of Arts in theatre degree from Hope College and is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in theatre degree from The University of Idaho. The photographic works presented here are an additional creative use of skills which also serve his design work for theatre and dance.
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portrait / Children In The Park
Trips to the park are one of the favorite pass times for the children in my extended family. For this project I decided to focus on portraits of my two-year-old son and my nine-year-old niece playing around in the park.
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INDEPENDENT / Light Is Magic
As a light and projection designer, I’ve always been fascinated by the ways in which the camera perceives the light differently from the human eye. Usually the human eye sees much more than even the best cameras but, through the use of long exposure times and illuminated sources, it is possible to paint with light and create amazing images that can only be seen through the cameras eye.
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Landscape / After The Harvest
There comes a point in rural Michigan when the colors of fall have gone and the harvest is complete but winter has not yet buried everything in ice and snow. There is a sense of having finally finished and waiting to begin that hangs over the empty fields and dormant farm equipment. This feeling lasts only a week or two and I wanted to try and capture a bit of that fleeting time.
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