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Charlie Naebeck: Kinetic

Kinetic

Charlie Naebeck

I became interested in the possibilities of kinetic movement through pure serendipity late one night when I was in Times Square in New York photographing behind the scenes images for my friend Jordan Matter for his Dancers After Dark book. Jordan kept freezing the dancers movements perfectly in each image that he made, and in that moment I paused and asked myself the question in my mind of what that image would look like if it were captured in movement instead of frozen? Shortly there after in April 2016, I began my journey to explore this idea by forming my Kinetic series. I contacted several dancers, and I began to experiment with long exposures, multiple exposures, gestures, and light painting. The result became the experience of what it means to visualize the movement of dance in non-traditional space in an abstract form, and is now available as a book.

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