In Dec 2004, I was in Bangalore on an assignment. It was the last evening of Bangalore Habba '04 at the Palace grounds. A grand stage was set in front of the majestic Bangalore Palace. Thanks to Inayat, I was able to photograph a spirited dance performance by Nirupama-Rajendra and Abhinava Ensemble. All the photos in this post are from that performance.
I have been thinking of putting up a portfolio of dance photography on my website. Over the past two years, I've photographed quite many dance performances but I have just not been able to share the pictures on the web. Slowly, I am gleaning pictures from those performances.
Have you seen the studio photography of RJ Muna? About two and a half years back, I saw his dance photography. Even though those were studio images, my heart yearned to shoot dance performances. His images inspired me to shoot dance.
Photographing dance performances is fun and challenging as well. One has to shoot without flash, have fast film speed, an arsenal of fast lenses and like everything, you learn to anticipate movements and shoot on instinct.
Long back, I read somewhere -
"Work like You don't need the money.
Love like You've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching."
Maybe, I should add to this -
"Photograph something like you've never seen it before."
