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Not another blog post about Art Basel.

In honor of offering fresh content and not ripping off everything else I’m reading online, I am going to share something I read today that is NOT about Art Basel. I’ve read so many blog posts about Art Basel that I don’t really need to rehash my own “preview” of the goings on in Miami this week. (Especially since I’m not going and bitter about it.) I’ll get the Art Basel posts out of the way once it’s over and my reporters have given their recaps.

So, The Guardian did a feature on French photographer, Denis Darzacq back in March. Here’s his deal. After the French riots in 2005 (and let me just say that there are riots in France every year, no wait, every changing of seasons, at least that often. French people riot and strike over everything. I know this because I lived there for back in 1999-2001 and learned how to riot from some of the best French-Moroccan hoodlums in all of Villefranch s/Saone….La Roche 4 life!) photographer Denis Darzacq went to the projects outside of Paris to capture the urban Gen Y’ers at their best, not as victims of deprivations but rather, a “generation in freefall with no one to catch them.”

This series of young men in freefall aptly titled, La Chute (The Fall), was done with a manual camera and without the smoke and mirrors trickery of PhotoShop. Darzacq used the expertise of a culled group of breakdancers to capture these suspended, mid-air moments. Where at first the dancers were skeptics, Darzacq convinced them that they’d be the perfect subjects for the project, as he had candidly captured them mid-air whilst dancing many times previously, in which instances they escaped unharmed.

The rest of the article can be found here via The Guardian. It’s short and there’s a gallery with some other selects from La Chute series.

And on a totally unrelated note, I really want this Little Joseph candle holder.  They’re selling them at Art Basel…