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Only a few days before the beginning of May, on April 28th, the world celebrates the art of dance.
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As part of international dance day in 2019, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in Athens, Greece organized an entire day, dedicated to a group of dancers, performing in the space outside the foundation.
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Children, amateur groups, and professional dancers gather to celebrate and perform with the unique talent that unites them.
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Having taken ballet and modern dance lessons, I find dance such a wonderful way to express oneself.
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Despite my enduring exposure to this art form, however, I never actually had captured any on film. My previous experimentation had been limited to street photography, nature coverage and portraits shoots.
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Visiting this event during International Dance Day led me to develop a new aspect of my photographic style.
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I enjoyed capturing small and yet special moments, taking a closer look at the movement of individual dancers within each group.
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I was impressed by the shapes created by the dancers’ movements, something I tried to capture in my photographs.
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Dancing can make you soar, or it can diminish your presence. Dancing is a means of demonstrating feelings or conversing in multidimensional words.
This has been one of my favorite projects as it forced me pay close attention to detail. I had to learn to simultaneously combine multiple very minute movements all into one frame.
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A subjective photographic study of the International Dance Day Project in Athens.
