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Gravity-Defying Photos Capture the Human Body in Poetic Motion [Interview]
Update: 2025-05-22
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Home / Photography By Eva Baron on April 14, 2025 Whether it be in painting, illustration, or photography, movement can be notoriously difficult to communicate in a static medium. This conundrum doesn’t concern Mathieu Forget. In his photographs, fencers leap toward each other with their swords drawn; martial artists and tennis players are suspended in the air; and breakdancers twist around each other, their limbs fluid and graceful. Though captured in single, unmoving images, the energy and dynamism expressed by these figures is remarkably palpable.Based in Paris, Forget specializes in such gravity-defying photographs, in which he showcases his signature “levitation” technique. Each composition boasts a mesmerizing level of patience and control, freezing subjects in mid-air and mid-action without unveiling the artist’s bag of tricks.“The process is a combination of physical ability, precise timing, and photography techniques,” Forget tells My Modern Met. “I also experiment with natura...
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