Brian Moore
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Africa,...? Thanks for posting it, Pete. Interesting. The blur renders the dancer almost un-human.
Shadow Dance
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Pete Askew
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Gambia. She has more and I will chase her again (and again and again…)
Tom Dunne
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Last year I went to an exhibition of shots by a group of friends of mine. One had a series of six images of a dancer all shot in slow shutter speed. All very dreamy. Light fabrics that looked like wind. All very dreamy, clinical and perfect but unfortunately all very much the same. I wanted to go to the wall and remove five of them and replace the sixth with one of larger dimension. Individually they look fine albeit unchallenging and using a hackneyed technique but all beside each other, well.
The first two here I don't really view them as a picture of a dancer as such. There is more here to take in. The shadow in itself is compelling or should I say the more haunting double shadow? I think the shadows are of the one dancer. Maybe not. It's as though the dancer is in some other state and is making a connection with her shadow. Like the image itself, nothing is sharp or clearcut.
Lots of visual confusion here on the second one. Her right side seems to blend or morph into the window and I am drawn to that shadow top left again with a barely visible double shadow. I kind of feel like an intruder while viewing these, intruding into someone's private world.
The coloured image is not giving much away. I'm guessing it is a dancer on a beach at some party. In a way it is a total opposite to the privacy and intimacy of the first two but I cannot get too involved with it.
The first two here I don't really view them as a picture of a dancer as such. There is more here to take in. The shadow in itself is compelling or should I say the more haunting double shadow? I think the shadows are of the one dancer. Maybe not. It's as though the dancer is in some other state and is making a connection with her shadow. Like the image itself, nothing is sharp or clearcut.
Lots of visual confusion here on the second one. Her right side seems to blend or morph into the window and I am drawn to that shadow top left again with a barely visible double shadow. I kind of feel like an intruder while viewing these, intruding into someone's private world.
The coloured image is not giving much away. I'm guessing it is a dancer on a beach at some party. In a way it is a total opposite to the privacy and intimacy of the first two but I cannot get too involved with it.
Pete Askew
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The first two images were taken by me of Blanka dancing. She was certainly in a world of her own and is totally absorbed by dance. She was watching her shadow while dancing I noticed and so I wanted to include it.
The last image was taken by Blanka of dancers on a beach in Gambia where she was studying African dance.
Thanks Tom for the detailed comments and thoughts. I really appreciate and enjoy reading them.
The last image was taken by Blanka of dancers on a beach in Gambia where she was studying African dance.
Thanks Tom for the detailed comments and thoughts. I really appreciate and enjoy reading them.
