La Chute. 2005-2006

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La Chute. 2005-2006

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La Chute. 2005-2006

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La Chute. 2005-2006

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Hyper. 2007

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Paris based photographer DENIS DARZACQ creates series of photographs which may seem surreal or a product of photoshop, however none of the works have been digitally manipulated. Instead, DENIS DARZACQ recruited young dancers and sportsmen (they’re not really dancers! Mostly they’re just young. They are 22, 23 years old, and no hope to have a job) to pose for the series using empty supermarkets or urban view as a backdrop.

“La Chute” series was created just after the riots in France in 2006:  “all the media was saying that the youth from working-class areas didn’t have any discipline or sense of work, and that instead they were fighting. And suddenly I found some hip-hop dancers and Capoeira dancers near my house where I live in a working-class area of Paris, and I asked them to jump in the streets and suddenly to freeze the movement, in between flying and falling.

This was my response, my way of talking about the riots in France. How are we going to take care of the younger generation? Are we going to let them fall, or are we going to take care of them? And all of them, or most of them, are immigrants. My idea is to try to find a place, to find a balance in this society. How can we live in this society where they aren’t very accepted? This was La Chute.”

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below: a documentary film shows French photographer DENIS DARZACQ working with street dancers in the suburbs of Paris.

Video courtesy of the artist, www.agencevu.com, and www.lensculture.com

and watch more at http://www.denis-darzacq.com

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