Captures Lines, in Motion
Spring, 2018.
As I’ve been around with many dancers as friends, this is my VERY FIRST time really collaborated with one, in my photography career.
I’ve been shooting still life photographs for years, but I’ve been fascinated with how to capture the moment of the movements, and power, and body lines — and here’s the dancer, Yuriko Hiroura, who gave me the first try and answers.
This is not a pure one-side thing — actually she’s the one that initiated this project.
“How about we shoot something about “moment”? Nothing fancy..but I wanna see air.” she said. Such an open concept, that allowed things happen in their way.
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I’ve seen Yuriko’s performances for, at least three years, due to the chances of work and invitation from my choreographer friends. A beautiful dancer, who also has been growing and improving a lot recently.
This is a four hour shooting work, without any break since we have no time to schedule one more shoot afterwards. Thus, it was not an easy work for her, keep trying and trying, but her working ethic as a 20-year professional dancer, allowed her to never stop moving and trying more things.
What I also learn from it is — NEVER over-plan things. The movement, the flow, the “air”, we can’t never control and see the whole thing.
Actually photographers can’t never capture all — just any piece of the story.
What did we see? What did we miss out?
White Wall project
Location: Gibney Dance, New York
Dancer/Collaborator: Yuriko Hiroura 廣浦百合子
for more photo works: https://zyproductions.art
