Dance Photography

Why?

I have chosen dance as my genre because I am a dancer myself and it is a very passionate subject of mine.

Dance is about expression, emotions and in most cases, telling a story.

Influences

Gene Shiavone- Ballet Photographer

He attended his wife’s ballet rehearsals and was amazed by the girls dancing on their toes (Pointe) and this influenced him to capture the beauty.

He was later given permission to photograph the ballet companies tours and productions and this enabled him to develop his skill as a dance photographer.

Influences

Paul Colwell- Dance photographerPaul likes working with dancers because he tends to find they chase perfection as obsessively as he does. He finds photographing dance as a process of combining two art forms. Where dance is all about movement, photography is fundamentally stillness.

When working with a dancer, he likes to watch them warm up and practice routines. This gives him the chance to asses the best way to capture particular moves.

Influences

Looking at those artists’ images, have influenced me to show how hard dance actually is through my images.

Some people don't realise the amount of strength, stamina and flexibility needed to be a dance

I also want to have an abstract approach to my images, such as taking pictures of dancers dancing on the street and maybe of Pointe shoes hanging from a tree.