Tag: dancer
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Explosive Dance Portraits By Photographer Alexander Yakovlev
Studio-dance photographer Alexander Yakovlev makes his images of professional dancers come alive by adding dynamic elements like exploding flour. The Moscow resident is a graduate from the faculty of law at the Russian State University For the Humanities, but it’s clear from his work here that rhetoric isn’t his only specialty. Yakovlev’s photos span a…
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Black and White Photography of Male Ballet Dancers
The beauty and grace of a ballet dancer is a sight to behold. But what about twenty amazingly flexible, sculptured, male ballet dancers? That was the task faced by photographer Matthew Brookes in his recent Les Danseurs project. Matthew worked with twenty male ballerinas from the Paris Opera Ballet, bringing the dancers to a minimalistic setting that allowed the men…
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Stunning Portraits Reveal the Powerful Movements of Dance
Studio dance photographer Alexander Yakovlev creates stunning portraits of professional dancers that are brought to life with the use of airborne flour. Yakovlev doesn’t only utilize this powdery element to make his images pop, he has also created a portfolio that allows black and white to meet color, ballet to meet break dance, and stationary poses to…
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Gravity-Defying Photos of Dancer Captured as if Frozen in Time
While levitation photography is nothing new, Taiwanese-French-American photographer Mickael Jou’s self-portraits of himself leaping through the air are exceptionally elegant feats of movement and grace. For the past three years, the Berlin-based creative has united his two passions—photography and dance—by capturing stunning images of his own nimble motions frozen in time. Similar to photographer Jordan…