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I was introduced to dance photography about four years ago. At the time, I was 20 years in on agency work as a creative director and had started focusing my personal time on fine art photography to offset the doldrums of commercial art. Those photography explorations were gloriously unstructured; I simply enjoyed being anywhere with a camera and treated every outing as an outlet. I was working on my own personal themes and in a very creative place, but then I lost my job and I became filled with an almost paralyzing dread over whether or not I might make it.
It was during this period that people started to take notice of my photography work in social media and I found myself featured in galleries and articles. It turned out to be a nice little bubble in the life of Instagram; one where a person could grow organically simply by posting creative work every day. I embraced it. I truly enjoyed the process of posting and hearing feedback from others. It was a chaotic but prolific period for me, and the positive feedback kept me afloat emotionally. It was in the midst of all this that I got introduced to the dance community in Los Angeles. It all started with a series I was working on. I thought a dancer might help me articulate the concept and I was given the name of a local dancer named Lydia who showed up to a location in downtown LA, with a duffel bag. I’d worked with many athletes in my…
