Dancing light

– March 8, 2007

Pamela is a dancer. I shot her portrait at my studio. All the work involved in this 2 shots is done during the shooting, no post-production at all.  Only using long exposure + flashes + a torch light. The trick was to get well synchronized together. Like dancing ultimately…

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About Eric Leleu

I have been living in China as a photographer for a few years. My brain is obsessed by concepts such as authority, consumerism, capitalism, geopolitics, sociology or urbanity... In a word, I am interested in our contemporaries (you and I) and the world as it becomes. My focus is the dynamics of public spaces: the interrelationship between the authority, the crowd and the individual. As for my eye, it is looking for colors and intensity. My dream is simple: having a few of my photos living longer than me...