About The Artist

Catalin Anastase started photography in November 1987 with black and white and light painting photography, adapting it in a glamorous way to people and still life. Catalin's training in performing arts, as actor, provided him with a theatrical style in his experimentation as a Light Painting photographer. His dramatic interpretation of imaging style is personified by mood in almost all his images of light allowing him to explore 'Laser Nudes' and 'Laser Still Life' as his main artistic projects. In 1995 Catalin exhibited light painted images at the International Festival for Photography in Burghausen. The principal theme was “Old Things in a New Vision” where he presented the light painting photography technique with female bodies in a different light for the first time. That was the start of a long journey in light painting photography. His research for a different style in photography and an alternative approach to people photography per se, brought to Catalin a new understanding about the imagery and philosophy of male/female bodies providing a catalysis for his new technique. Under a light beam, the shape - essence of the body tends to stand out and imperfections tend to recede into the dark. The photographer and the model are connected through that light beam providing the single visual link producing the final image. Catalin has exhibited throughout the world from Europe to Australia and New Zealand, experimenting new photography techniques according to modern advances in digital technology. Catalin Anastase is now living in Sydney, Australia MAIN EXHIBITIONS Sydney, Australia - Laser Moments - Exhibition at Art Moment Gallery - 2007 Sydney , Australia - Projection Exhibition at TAP Gallery for the book launch OPEN 24 HOURS - 2005 Auckland, New Zealand, 2002-2004 Laser Nudes Wellington, New Zealand, 2001 Laser Nudes Masterton, New Zealand, 2001 People, Traditions and Events The Art Museum of Constanta, 1997 - nude The Festival for Avant-Garde Photography - laser nudes in Burghausen, Germany, 1995 The French Institute, Bucharest, 1995 - nude AAF Gallery, Bucharest, 1991 - 1994 photojournalism, portraits