Gratte Ciel: Place des Anges (2023)
2 of 2 images in the exhibition.
Set over two nights, this aerial ballet of suspended and high-speeding acrobats on wires was a triumph of skill and spectacle. And feathers. Lots of feathers. Which can still be found in amongst the bushes near The Point, if you go hunting.
As a photographer, high speed people flying about in the air on wires, at night, picked out by intermittant spot lights for dramatic effect, was another but business-as-usual challenge photographing IF.
The brief is always to capture the people, the place, the performance (ideally all of these at the same time) all wrapped up in a sense of enjoyment, engagement, diversity and ‘Milton Keynes’ whilst at the same time maintaining technical excellence and aesthetic creativity. At every event, every time and usually with variable and challenging lighting in unknown situations.
This image naturally captures a sense of the fun and joy that takes place at these events.