I’ll just start. After COVID made its way to Louisiana, my extra-curricular things and photography really just halted. Along with most things everywhere, my assignments and gigs photographing events were cancelled. I really quit picking up my camera outside of my day job (that I do love!). When I do pick up my camera, it is normally me celebrating other people. And for a good part of this year, I haven’t really been around people in this creative way or just at all.
This past month I was contacted by the wonderful team at Country Roads magazine for this assignment on Lost Performances featuring local dance companies- whose creative productions also came to a halt. It was a long hot Saturday morning. Really hot. I photographed dancer after dancer, running from locations and shifting light and vision.
I might be obsessed with dance now (tell all of your dance friends and dance companies), but you probably saw that coming. Collaborating with other artists is always a magical time. Ballerinas forever. But wow! I made something after months of not doing that. This shoot brought me back. It knocked off the dust I let gather. It gave me that good feeling again. I made something with other artists and even through the hot sun and sticky sweat it felt powerful in the sense I knew it was still possible. In fact, after, I immediately planned a time for me to go out and photograph again.
Below are outtakes and shots that may appear online or in the magazine.
Read the story here. Find the September issue on stands now.
Of Moving Colors, Baton Rouge
NOLA Contemporary Ballet, New Orleans
Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre, Baton Rouge
New Orleans Ballet Association, New Orleans
