“State” is a chapter of work from Catalan choreographer Daniel Lourenco’s “A Fragile Geography”. Daniel describes it as follows:
“In a State controlled by power, money and fear, citizens believe they enjoy a freedom that they do not really possess. The way they move, cry, smile and wait does not belong to them anymore. Emotion does not exist, there is no place for it. Two people perform their show, twice a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Their movements are robotic, mechanical, there is nothing they can control because they control nothing: they have become automatons. The only thing that seems to be able to release them are the memories in which human emotion seems to be discovered through the traditional dance of previous generations that have already left.”
I was delighted to collaborate with Daniel and London based dancer Mary Mannion on a couple of photo shoots for this project. The description, in my view, called for dramatic, high contrast lighting. I also thought about doing black & white only, but Daniel liked some of the colour photographs, so I did both colour and monochrome.
It took me a while to find the proper way to post process the colour images to reflect the mood of the piece. I wound up adding grunge textures to the backgrounds.
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