Lumogeny
An atlas of photographic styles
Know the look before you light it. Lumogeny shows where the lights stand for each photographic style, from daguerreotype portraits to the Düsseldorf School, and turns the one you want into a shoot sheet for your own camera, lenses and lights.
- Works no.
- 002 of 31
- Status
- Live
- Work began
- 18 Oct 2026
- Where
- lumogeny.com
- Made by
- Laurens van Riel, 42workspace, Rotterdam
In numbers
- 54photographic styles
- 295choices
- 106museum photographs
What is inside
- 54 styles described by 295 photographic choices in 15 groups
- A light lab: move one softbox round a clay head for butterfly, loop, Rembrandt and split light
- 106 photographs from open museum collections, each with its credit line
How it is built
Stylogeny’s engine with photographic choices (light, lens, pose, process) in place of graphic ones. The set-ups are Blender renders of a synthetic clay head, never a real person.
The atlas behind it is called Photogeny; Lumogeny is its public face.