The back-of-head portrait is underused. When the subject is turned away, their attention becomes the subject of the photograph — you look at what they are looking at rather than at them. The viewer is placed alongside the subject rather than in front of them.
At the India Day Fair, the pink shawl pulled focus against the crowd of faces, and the turned position opened up the image rather than closing it.
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Two girls mid-routine at the India Day Fair. The older one is already holding her form — posture, hands, the trained position. The younger one is moving through the same choreography from a different place entirely, still in the stage where it is just dancing.
That gap between the girl who is performing and the girl who is just dancing is what makes the image worth keeping over the others from the same sequence.
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Dance photography is about tracking the movement to anticipate the peak. The body passes through interesting positions continuously . The moment of full extension lasted less than a second.
Black and white was the decision because in colour the eye goes to the fabric. Stripped of colour, the costume becomes architecture and the body's line carries without competition.
Patience and positioning. There are no other variables you control.
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