Video: Spirit of Freedom: Pictures of Parkour Masters by Ben Franke
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Transferring motion in a static drawing or photograph is one of the most difficult tasks for an artist. Handles her brilliantly Ben Franke - Photographer and documentary filmmaker from New York, who captured for his photo cycle Parkour motion acrobatic stunts of athletes-tracers.
Franke has shown a keen interest in the sport and subculture of tracers - people involved in parkour, that is, overcoming obstacles in an urban setting - for several years. For a long time he has been in close contact with the tracer "get-together" of New York and, literally, follows some athletes on their heels, trying to record their every movement.
According to Franke, in the movements of parkour masters, which often seem incredibly complex, there is no less grace and elegance than in the dances of professional representatives of ballet art. In Franke's photographs, one can observe how people not only expand the boundaries of the capabilities of the human body, but also almost overcome the force of gravity.
Parkour is one of the most popular extreme subcultures in the world. Parkourists of Montreal can be seen in photographs National Geographic; all over the world festivalsdedicated to this and closely related youth movements. Like many other photographers and artists, Franke admires the skill of tracers and in his photo cycle tries to "reflect the energy and strength of young athletes, as far as possible with the help of a two-dimensional image."
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