INTERACTIONS contemporary dance photography

NOW AVAILABLE in DIGITAL format (PDF) email me vesa.loikas@gmail.com

Book Cover: Kings Cross station pedestrian tunnel, LONDON | Dancers: Daniel Persson (SWE) & Vincent Malmberg (SWE) 2016

CONTEMPORARY DANCE PHOTOGRAPHY
HELSINKI LONDON NEW YORK SHANGHAI

Hardcover book with bound bookmark, photobook with essays by Päivi Leinonen, Jaska Poikonen, Ania Straczynska & Heidi Alasuvanto on the built environment, poetry in motion, dance tasks and collaboration.

NEW YORK CITY | dancer: Xan Burley & Alex Springer

SHANGHAI | left: Ke Ren right: Yanan Liu & Bu Zhicheng

Dancing is a form of expression and for some people dance becomes their own language and vocabulary. This dance vocabulary is a serious study of the art of dance and also a study of themselves in relation to the environment and people around them. This photo book is about those wonderful and energetic dance artists as I have captured their dance vocabulary in their chosen environments in four cities around the world.

SHANGHAI | left: Nangang Su right: Anneliese Charek

LONDON | Essay on collaboration by Ania Straczynska, a Polish born London based contemporary choreographer & dancer | Photo right: Alexandra Road Estate, London

Ruoholahti, HELSINKI | dancer: Kristiina Turtiainen

I explore the interactions, relationships and juxtapositions formed when landscape, architecture and people come together

NEW YORK CITY | dancers: Xan Burley & Julia Burrer

Through photography I express & explore the human condition and its wide range of emotions. I often collaborate with other artists and use architecture and urban landscape as stages.

Essay on BUILT ENVIRONMENT by Päivi Leinonen (in Finnish) | photo right: New York City dancer: Xan Burley

SHANGHAI

SHANGHAI

dance tasks by Heidi Alasuvanto | photo Suomenlinna, HELSINKI dancer: Kristiina Turtiainen

dance tasks by Heidi Alasuvanto | photo Suomenlinna, HELSINKI dancer: Kristiina Turtiainen



"I explore the interactions, relationships and juxtapositions formed when landscape, architecture and people come together"

I am a fine art photographer & film maker
based in Turku, Finland. 

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