Dance Photography and Workshops
Welcome to my portfolio of dance photography! Over time the portfolio has become very international and now includes performers from far too many countries to mention ... and not just dancers but also dance companies including the English National Ballet, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the New English Contemporary Ballet, the National Ballet of Cuba, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, the Northern Ballet Theatre and most recently the Ballet estable del Teatro Colon.
Enjoy! ...and please do leave a message in my guestbook if you like my work
I also would suggest that you visit another of my sites www.rowbotham-cirque.book.fr
which contains more recent work and also the photowall.
I continue to work with both individual performers and dance companies and can be contacted through this website.
Jim
The images at the top of this page have been used to publicise an exhibition of my work at the Point Theatre in Eastleigh, Hampshire from September 2008 through to mid June 2009. My work has also been exhibited at Swindon Dance, Gloucestershire Dance, at the Cloud Dance Festival and at VideoDanzaBA 2011. 2012 exhibitions will be at the Point Theatre, Eastleigh and at Deda in Derby.
The photos to the far right of this page were taken as part of a workshop with Lois Greenfield, 2008. The images were shot at the Lois Greenfield studio in New York City with members of the Amy Marshall Dance Company, Andrew Claus and Smitha Radhakrishnan.
The image above right is of Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers Ambra Vallo and Chi Cao. The photo below right is of ballet dancer Emma Brunton from a photoshoot at Swindon Dance.
fab 2013
The ballerina molly beebee at the daffodil in cheltenham for fashion and beauty 2013.
spring 2013 dance photography workshop
This is in planning...please mail me if you are interested in joining us in cheltenham
one day in bangkok....
in mendoza
shooting at finca adalagisa and el estacion viejo "paso de los andes" with maria belen villegas and oscar arce
back to san telmo
harry and rachel revisited.....
It was a pleasant surprise when Rachel Louisa Maybank mailed me a while ago saying that it would be nice to do another shoot with Harry Alexander ...and so today we did ...a lovely relaxing break after a very hectic weekend running two whole days of workshops. It is early days to review everything we have but here is a sneak preview.... Harry sporting ostrich feathers courtesy of the wonderful Missy Malone. Burlesque or Swan Lake? ...you decide!
more of rachel and harry right here now!
workshop 15
a very successful workshop over the weekend ... working with dancers helena casado cortes, julia davies, luca varone and joseph mackie-graves and a team of enthusiastoc photographers resulted in many super images . Massive motion blur was one of the techniques we experimented with as a team. Here is Helena.
experimental mosaics
I have been experimenting with creating mosaic images of dancers ...all built up from multiple images of the same dancers
here are a couple of examples with ksenia ovsyanick and rachel louisa maybank
suzuki catwalk @ the clothes show 2012
dancers make great models ...and provide entertanment for the audience every year at the clothes show's suzuki catwalk .... this is from today's shoot at the NEC
lord of the dance
from a shoot today with Becky Blissitt and her lovely thoroughbred horse "Lord of the Dance"
back to college
...another portfolio shoot for SLP college. Here is Addison George...
featured in Bowen's Litebook
I am delighted that an article has been published about my work in the winter 2012 edition of Bowen's Litebook. Bowens are a leading international manufacturer of photographic studio lighting. Very pleasing!. Dancers featured in the article are : Rachel Lousia Maybank (in Gloucester Cathedral), Kieran Edmonds at Swindon Dance, Chané Henderson representing Fitnay, Udifydance and Lila dance, both at the Point Theatre, Eastleigh. Many thanks to these and all the very many other dancers who helped make this possible.
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