Chance and Gravity Intervened: Photographer Denis Darzacq

Denis Darzacq asks dancers and athletes to perform jumps against backgrounds that he had found and prepared. Wearing ordinary clothes, the performers executed their leaps in these precisely defined settings.

"Everything had been prepared in advance. Everything was ready. The models launched themselves into space. There is nothing false in these scenes. These moments really occurred. There is no fiction, no retouching or special effects. Photographed in the courtyards of buildings or in streets in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, in Nanterre and in Biarritz, these young people were just being themselves, simply performing jumps in a modern urban setting. And the photographer shot the images, intervening only to give a few guidelines as to their movements. However, at the moment of the leap, chance and gravity also intervened." - Virginie Chardin

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Comment by alice on August 20, 2008 at 3:35pm: @worldgirl84 i like JPG mag! some great pics there! thanks for the tip!

Comment by alice on August 19, 2008 at 1:05pm: a video clip that shows how Denis does it:

Comment by alice on August 19, 2008 at 1:01pm: i think i want to try doing this, this weekend. anyone with me? :)

Comment by worldgirl84 on August 19, 2008 at 12:45pm: I love stuff like this. It reminds me of something you would see in JPG magazine. http://www.jpgmag.com

Comment by SiMonster on August 19, 2008 at 12:28pm: i wanna see the shots from a second later...

ouch.

Comment by Kara on August 19, 2008 at 11:57am: whoa!!!!! Thats awesome! I love this kind of stuff! So cool

Comment by Eugene on August 19, 2008 at 9:18am: great shots. crazy how they're real