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.