An Angel Has Fallen

A few years ago in the beginning stages of my Dancers Project, I was fortunate enough to meet a pole dancer that not only possessed an incredible talent for pole dancing but was also one of the loveliest people I’ve met. She came across as such a gentle and kind soul. She was probably one of the first pole dancers that convinced me that pole dancing is truely an art form and should definetly be an olympic sport. We did the photo shoot and I sent her the results shortly after. Since then we went our separate ways and carried on with out lives. I would look at the photos occasionally while putting together my project.

It came as a huge shock and filled me with great sadness when I learned a few years later that she had died. So young and filled with life and energy. This made me question many things in my own life and I will forever be grateful that I had the opportunity to photograph her, to capture her image forever in the way that I saw and knew her.

I’ve been looking at those same photos recently because I am busy redoing my website. My skill level has improved since then and I just had to re-edit the photos of her as I feel that the old ones didn’t do her justice. I think that these photos better represent her grace, beauty, power and sensuality.

Rest well, you are missed.

Chad

Dancers Project

Just in time for your commute home. Well done you did it, Monday is finished!!! I hope this post makes your day just a little bit more interesting.

It's been a while since I posted so I thought I would update you on what I've been up to. I've been shooting lots for my ongoing Dancers Project. This is a long term project dedicated amongst other things, grace, beauty and energy of dancers. The project is evolving in some ways and thus I feel it could go on for a while until I am satisfied that it is complete. I think this is normal because the more time I spend with dancers the better I understand what being a dancer is all about, the more I want to show the pain, dedication and very personal need for self excellence that each dancer seems to bring to each movement and pose. Also the longer I work on this project, the more ideas and different angles I discover that I feel add to it in some way. Finally it's also important to me to bring a little of each dancers stage personality into the photo. The project has also changed in that what started off as a purely black and white idea now will be a mix of color and black and white photos. This came about after just talking to the dancers about what they do and how they see themselves.

There are so many different styles of dancing that I have not yet discovered or explored. For the moment the idea is to show as many as possible. If you are a dancer and would like to collaborate with me then feel free to contact me.