In 2015, the legacy of Niels Finsen was revived when Danish artist Nicolai Howalt, in collaboration with Medical Museion, Copenhagen, embarked on an artistic reinterpretation of Finsen's research, resulting in the release of "Light Break", 2015. Enticed by the opportunity to offer a photographic vision of the mysterious chemical rays isolated by Finsen, Howalt used Finsen's original convex lenses and quartz filters in experimental pursuit of seemingly raw aesthetic depictions.
Mounted on a large-format analog camera, the lenses absorb both the visible and invisible rays of the sun, allowing for direct exposure on emulsion-coated paper. As a result, the extraordinarily colorful and chemically infused images extracted from these exposures provide a perfect testament to the extreme light spectrum in which Finsen operated.
