The chat with Marcelo started at BC ONE Salvador
where I was one of the judges - he said
Man, we gotta make some different photos
are you in? Then I said, of course!
The idea came a few years ago when I was shooting a race at night. 0:00:57.120,0:00:56.150 The competitors used a headlamp
I started to mark the movement with long exposure and a flash
marking the athletes path
with the flash that freezes certain moments.
From this point on, I began to study how to reproduce this in other sports and
now I'm bringing this to the B-boys because I think it totally connects to the scene.
We gathered three B-boys with different styles
to try and create something new in the dance scene.
I believe it is a very creative and different job.
I think it's something like 3d, a photography evolution.
Here I used basically two techniques, both with long light exposure
like between 1 and 5 seconds of exposure.
The first one was with stroboscopic light
It is a lot of sequential flashes with a main instant freeze with a different color flash.
It is a movement here, a movement there, and so the photo represents it.
It takes you like stairs, a sort of movement in sequence
The repetition was kind of exhausting for them
because it takes awhile to do it right and make everything work well together simultaneously.
Usually during my daily routine, I don't do the moves so many times as I did to take the pictures.
I can see movement I can't normally see.
and this can give me ideas for new movement because I can't see myself. When I can see my performance like this, I know what to do.
The second technique was LEDs fixed on the B-boys' shoes.
We used long exposure to track the entire dance, all of their movements.
I'm trying to fix the LEDs on Lil G's shoes to track his moves. 0:03:18.240,0:03:17.180 He puts some lights on our feet for the photo shoot. We can get the image with the movement tracks
from the beginning to the end
The LED rehearsal I enjoyed a lot of the moves I did mostly because
of the headspin. I spun, spun, spun without any hands touching the floor making a ton of movement with my legs.
I usually do that but when I saw the picture it was amazing
because you can see a lot of lines around me with my movement frozen.
It is amazing, like, how could I even do that?
If the photographer doesn't know a little bit about breaking, he can't get a photo he wants.
It must be team work, side by side, and there must be a connection from the start
of the photo session because he has the camera and I have the moves.
He has to say to me "do this" and I tell him if it's possible or not.
So the main point of this project is making a connection with each other.
The main idea was to give movement to the still image.
Usually we freeze the dance but here we want to we want to bring movement and speed of break dancing into the picture.
In my country when a job or project is amazing and your impressed we say "borralo"
It's like speechless and perfect.