OMG WOW Photos BY Jesús Chapa-Malacara

OMG WOW Photos BY Jesús Chapa-Malacara

Jesús Chapa-Malacara, a Brooklyn-based photographer and former contemporary ballet dancer. Photographer and former dancer Jesús Chapa-Malacara, head of art production company fotosjcm, announces the launch of Esprit de Corps, an innovative book of ballet photography unlike any seen before.  The high-end art book, currently being independently financed and offered exclusively through a Kickstarter campaign, will feature world-class dancers from several top ballet companies, including American Ballet Theatre’s Jared Matthews and Yuriko Kajiya, Dance Theatre of Harlem‘s Michaela DePrince and others.

The photographs, innovative in their use of light and sparse use of retouching, explore the boundaries of photography in capturing both motion and lines in the same frame.  “The work is just, wow,” said DePrince.  “When I saw the photos, I knew immediately I had to be a part of it.” –  “OMG, incredible!” added American Ballet Theatre dancer Elina Miettinen upon seeing prints of the first few photos. “The digital ones are beautiful, but they don’t hold a candle to this.”  An innovative single-frame, single-exposure ballet photo book featuring some of the world's top ballet dancers (not Photoshopped).

The campaign for Esprit de Corps will last 32 days and run from July 15 – August 15, 2013.  The book and products will roll out between August and December 2013. The project and campaign can be found at: http://kck.st/18j0bNQ

Source  :  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fotosjcm/esprit-de-corps-a-ballet-photography-book