For the first photoshoot I wanted to experiment with camera's technicalities and to investigate how photography can portray time. Turns out it's all about photographing movement.
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| Denis Darzacq, La Chute, 2006 |
One artist that has dealt with movement in many of his series is Denis Darzacq. Born in 1961, Denis Darzacq lives and works in Paris. After graduating at the National School of decorative Arts he worked for many years as a photojournalist for the press. His artistic work focuses on the urban landscape, contemporary society and on human bodies as sculptures.
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| Denis Darzacq, La Chute, 2006 |
The series of his photographs that inspired me are La Chute and Hyper, that capture hip hop dancers during leaps, dance moves and jumps without recurring to digital manipulation. Darzaq freezes the dancers' movement. Time has stopped and the dancers are suspended in air; the whole composition looks supernatural.
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| Denis Darzacq, La Chute, 2006 |
In La Chute photographs the light bodies of the dancers pop up from the dense geometry of the surrounding urban landscape. With this photos he wants also to document the inventiveness and creativity of street culture.
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| Denis Darzacq, Hyper, 2007-2010 |
Hyper follows La Chute and places the dancing bodies in supermarkets. This series is a critique to consumerism and to marketing strategies that aspire to control our behavior. Dancing bodies in mid air are a symbol of freedom and oppose the orderly and saturated shelves of the supermarkets. In my first photoshoot I will try to photograph jumping subject in different places recreating Darzacq's sense of lightness and freedom, by freezing movement and stopping time.
