Dancer in the Streets by Monica A. Walker Vadillo
The music is silent. The colours are muted. The dancer is caught in mid-motion for an eternity; but the potential of movement is right there...in the next second that will never come because it has already happened. But the dancer, caught in mid-motion, reminds us of the beauty that the human body can enact with all the physicality that the motion entails. There are moments of flight, of magical contortions and bodily expressions that touch the soul.
If dancing is poetry in motion, a photograph steals the stanza and keeps a person hanging in the moment. And when the dancer is placed around the ordinary lives of ordinary people around a city that is anything but ordinary, then there is just everlasting beauty. A blend of dance and street photography, this series was done using a Fuji X-100T with a fixed lens (23mm, f2) in 2021. The dancer is Jenn Vogtle (Instagram @Jenn_the_human), a London-based dancer and citizen of Planet Earth. Now, four photos of the series have been printed for the first time and they now hang in the Stairwell Gallery at The Camera Cllub. For those interested in the full sereis, click HERE to see the capture of the virtual exhibition on YouTube, or you can click HERE to see the full collection on my website.
Seires Title: Dancer in the Street.
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