I've used a flashlight for blackouts, a miner's headlamp on camping trips, a Clamplight for ceiling repairs, and a flexible LED penlight for machine repair. Light sources like these require you hold them in your hand, or affix them to an object or your head. But imagine if your entire body was itself a source of illumination.
London-based filmmaker and fashion photographer Jacob Sutton had designer John Spatcher rig up an LED jumpsuit, which he then wrapped pro snowboarder William Hughes in. Sutton, Hughes and crew then spent three nights in the French Alps recording this video below:
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