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The Melbourne Light Painters are a community based group of photographers based in Melbourne Australia. The group has a primary focus on light painting and night time photography with some emphasis placed on abandoned and dark places. These places create the perfect backdrop for the group's art form. The Group has had some media coverage with many articles in the news, online and in some nationally read newspapers.

History
The Melbourne Light Painters first came together in 2009, as a group of eager and diverse photographers, who had an itch for urban exploration and light painting. The group made contacts with other urban explorers who helped them find exciting locations around the city of Melbourne and underground locations such as storm water drains.

In 2010 the group was involved in a major exhibition as part of Sweet Streets. See reference 3. Five members of the group submitted works to this exhibition and gained some media coverage.

Today the group continues to have regular photo shoots and expos and are involved in a number of aspects of photography and activities such as light painting/photography education and various upcoming projects. Light painting classes are being run at Laneway Learning on a semi-regular basis. Refer external link 3 below.

One of the founders of the Melbourne Light Painters, Justin Moyle, also manages his own photography enterprise known as Enigmatic Photography, which encompasses light painting, landscape photography and roller derby photography. Two other Melbourne Light Painters do work in many creative disciplines and call themselves Partners in Light.

The group has always been inspired by many great light painters around the globe such as...

Urban Exploration
The group has always been associated with urban exploration. Urban exploration is popular and commonly associated with light painting photography. The group visits rarely seen places, literally underground, and lights them up with amazing displays of light and gadgets.

Secrecy
The group has some level of secrecy with the names and identities of some of the members being suppressed and only aliases being used for many of the photos posted online and media coverage.

In the Media
The Melbourne Light Painters have been featured in the Art section in The Age. The group was previously known as Melbourne City Drain Painters, but changed their name in 2010 improve the group image and create a true representation of what the group stands for.