honorable mention
András Dobi
title
Photoreographia
Photoreographia is an act of merge, where a particular choreography, that was choreographed by professional choreographers for this occasion is captured into a unique image which reflects both the choreographers and photographers artistic choices.
All the images in this series are photographed from above. The camera is placed on the light supporting system pointing downwards to the stage. The choice of perspective has two main reasons: it creates an unusual viewer experience that allows one to see the whole dance choreography spread out on the stage, making it look like an abstract form that was formed by the dancer upon the choreographer’s artistic decisions. The composition of the images is uniform. The black background supports the complex motion to be shown in one single image. When people look at Photoreographia images, some say they see them as an imprint of the choreographer’s artistic signature. What a coincidence? The word “choreography”,derived from the Greek language, literally means “dancewriting”.
This artistic collaboration gives us a great opportunity to challenge ourselves in the different aspects of our own artistic fields and to combine them into a new form of experience. A photographer, a choreographer, and a dancer have to work closely together to achieve this specific task, something that was probably never attempted before.
For me an interesting image starts with a strong idea, which is the reason I spend lots of time to forge unique concepts for my projects. With photoreographia is it just the same. I come from the field of performing arts as I was educated as professional ballet dancer and practiced my profession for many years. During the last couple of years of my dance career I advanced the technical aspect of photography to be able to combine my artistic approach with photography. My aim is to explore contemporary art through the medium of photography, and set my own artistic signature in it. I’m eager to implement the elements of performing arts and diversity theatrical acts to my photography. Since I don’t dance any more, I only focus on photography. My main interest is pointed towards creating artistic concepts and turn them to photographs. As an always moving person, dance photography stayed on the horizon of my interest, time to time I’m more than pleased to capture the most beautiful movements – dance.
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entry description
The art project titled Photoreographia is the realization of the photographic concept, that is based on the research of resolving the contradiction between dance (a movement through time), and photography (the imprint of a moment).Photoreographia is an act of merge, where a particular choreography, that was choreographed by professional choreographers for this occasion is captured into a unique image which reflects both the choreographers and photographers artistic choices.
All the images in this series are photographed from above. The camera is placed on the light supporting system pointing downwards to the stage. The choice of perspective has two main reasons: it creates an unusual viewer experience that allows one to see the whole dance choreography spread out on the stage, making it look like an abstract form that was formed by the dancer upon the choreographer’s artistic decisions. The composition of the images is uniform. The black background supports the complex motion to be shown in one single image. When people look at Photoreographia images, some say they see them as an imprint of the choreographer’s artistic signature. What a coincidence? The word “choreography”,derived from the Greek language, literally means “dancewriting”.
This artistic collaboration gives us a great opportunity to challenge ourselves in the different aspects of our own artistic fields and to combine them into a new form of experience. A photographer, a choreographer, and a dancer have to work closely together to achieve this specific task, something that was probably never attempted before.
about the photographer
My name is András Dobi, I’m a fine art photographer, born in Hungary. Currently I live and work in Augsburg. In my photographic work, I see every element equally important from concept creation until printing the final image.For me an interesting image starts with a strong idea, which is the reason I spend lots of time to forge unique concepts for my projects. With photoreographia is it just the same. I come from the field of performing arts as I was educated as professional ballet dancer and practiced my profession for many years. During the last couple of years of my dance career I advanced the technical aspect of photography to be able to combine my artistic approach with photography. My aim is to explore contemporary art through the medium of photography, and set my own artistic signature in it. I’m eager to implement the elements of performing arts and diversity theatrical acts to my photography. Since I don’t dance any more, I only focus on photography. My main interest is pointed towards creating artistic concepts and turn them to photographs. As an always moving person, dance photography stayed on the horizon of my interest, time to time I’m more than pleased to capture the most beautiful movements – dance.
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