“For the most part, my photography has focused on creating clear and straightforward portraiture and photojournalism. More recently, however, I’ve considered how I might take the viewer with me to a deeper level⎯to create images that would provoke thoughtful interaction, emotion, and perhaps even new insight.
It was when I was introduced to dance and dance photography through Blake Beckham and Dance Truck that this idea began to take shape. Through the opportunities Dance Truck gave me, I realized how movement is used to tell story, create emotion, and call for a response in an audience. It was that understanding which led to my desire to use my images to pull the viewer into the movement, feeling, and story of the human form in motion. Viewers could see through my lens something they were unable to see with their own eyes—to experience the motion of dance in a way that was altogether different than how they had experienced it in the past.
All of this led to a collaborative project with Dance Truck, and these images⎯Portraits of Mystery⎯are the result.”
Portraits of Mystery is inspired by and dedicated to the artists and dancers of Dance Truck.” – Bobbi Jo Brooks
This is one image feature Emily Sodashi Christianson among a collection of sixteen that will open at the Genema Gallery on Friday night! All are invited to the opening plus you will get to hear The New Empires!
For details on the gallery opening please visit: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177436682333274
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