James Sparshatt

Impressions of Dance series


The swirls and flowing, liquid movements of dance give but a fleeting impression.  They are images that are burned into the mind's eye, a panoply of colour in motion. To capture this spirit with the still medium of photography is challenging. Shoot too fast and the resullt is often a pose that looks unnatural, contrived... shoot too slow and the form of the dance, the character, is lost.  In between there are moments of magic... fractions of a second in which impressions can be captured and impressionism reborn.