About Me

Loys is French, and arrived in Africa just before his teens. He married Sharon, a South African Fine Arts Graduate, in 1978, and graduated with a finance degree in 1986. Loys ran a consultancy designed to optimize wealth and values among the corporate business sector, and to administer sustainable and profitable change among his clients. They arrived in Canada in 1997 to begin a season of their lives set aside to building a community of volunteers from the ground, and without a revenue stream. In 2011, Loys is again picking up the momentum of investing his skills in the marketplace as a corporate change agent.

Loys’ father was a musician and caricaturist whose last words written in French were “We discover always too late that the marvel is in each moment.” These words have become an inspiration in his life. Loys took up photography in 2006 to capture landscapes for his wife’s large oil paintings, and so fell in love with the way that light falls on objects. This has grown into a passion for the monochrome frame. He is constantly exploring light at play. He believes that in some ways color can imprison contemplation, and prefers to let the simplicity of black and white tones command the admiration of light at work in a scene.

The Pursuing the Light project, which exhibited at the Arta Gallery at the Toronto Distillery District in December 2007, and again at the Contact Photography festival in May 2008, examines the relationship between light and shadows, and in some ways reflects his creative philosophy. Loys takes a metaphysical view of the existence of shadows within a scene. Since without light there would be no shadows, he takes a “no fear” approach by seeking the extremes of contrast in all his shots. As light brings insight to his images, the shadows increase the intrigue, and both interplay together to complete the message he is trying to communicate. Because of the Spiritual message that undergirds all his themes, his photographs are in some ways a metaphorical interpretation of life as he sees it.

video of the ARTA exhibition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfybYEM4Fk4