Photographer uses 'psychic' camera to shoot people's auras

A KIWI photographer has set out to prove that auras aren't an airy-fairy myth. He has created a photo series using a special camera that reads people's auras in much the same way a psychic does. But is it legit?

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A NEW ZEALAND photographer has set out to prove that auras aren't this airy-fairy myth that makes us feel better about ourselves.

They're real. And he claims to have a camera that can prove it.

The artist, Carlo Van de Roer told news.com.au that he used a camera known as the "AuraCam 6000" that reads the electromagnetic fields emitted from the person it is photographing, much in the same way a psychic does, creating a colourful aura field around them.

"Part of the reason I was interested in using an aura camera to explore the portrait making process is what it promises," Van de Roer said. "The manufacturers of these cameras make the claim that their technology can depict what a psychic might see, a claim that's difficult to objectively prove.

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"It's an excessive example of a familiar idea - that a camera can provide an insight into the subject or the relationship between the photographer and the subject."

Van de Roer has published the incredible images in a book titled "The Portrait Machine Project".

The camera works by connecting subjects to two hand sensors that are connected to the camera via cables. Polaroid film is inserted into the camera. Once the subject has both their left and right hands on the sensors, the AuraCam begins to gather "biofeedback", measuring the points of resonance around certain areas in the body.

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"The measured points of resonance are connected with certain organs and the electromagnetic field of the person; this information about the energetic and auric qualities of a human being are then delivered to the camera," the AuraCam website claims.

However the Aura Imaging website says that it only produces an electronic interpretation of what it believes an aura looks like.

"It does not photograph the actual Aura. There's nothing that exists which can do this," the website says.

The camera assigns values to different aspects of your electromagnetic field which can be influenced by things like body temperature, humidity and static electricity in and around the person being photographed.

A green aura indicates healing and teaching, elasticity of will, perseverance and tenacity. Picture: Carlo Van de Roer

The finer scientific details of how it work are unclear, the site claims this is the secret to its patended technology.

Each of Van de Roer's photographs has an accompanying chart explaining what the aura readings mean.

Orange for example "represents energy with mental direction", the chart explains. "You are alive, artistic, perceptive creative. Constructive self expression is important to you."

Van de Roer wouldn't be drawn on his personal beliefs, and whether these portraits prove the existence of an "other worldly" field, but said he had always been interested in the idea that technology could reveal something that was "otherwise unseen, something that we can only see through a photographic process".

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"I started making these portraits as a way for me to unpack some ideas about this, to explore the relationships between photographer, camera, subject and viewer," he said.

You can view more of his portraits here.

Do you want to know what your aura looks like? Or should some things remain unseen? Have your say below.

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