The mystery of the body in motion.
Just a photographer, his vision, and the serendipity of what happens when the shutter clicks..
There\'s no photoshopping here, no trampolines, no gimmicks, no tricks.
Organized around themes of work, play, love, exploration, dreaming, and more, Dancers Among Us celebrates life in a way that\'s fresh, surprising, original, universal.
And in that image Matter found what he\'d been searching for: a way to express the feeling of being fully alive in the moment, unself-conscious, present.
So, dressed in a commuter\'s suit and tie, the dancer flew across a Times Square subway platform.
Photographer Jordan Matter started his Dancers Among Us Project by asking a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company to dance for him in a place where dance is unexpected.
With each image the reader feels buoyed up, eager to see the next bit of magic.
Dancers Among Us presents one thrilling photograph after another of Dancers leaping, spinning, lifting, kicking--but in the midst of daily life: on the beach, at a construction site, in a library, a restaurant, a park.
And the pure, joyful optimism of it all.
The surprise of seeing what seems impossible.
The mystery of the body in motion
