Denis Darzacq & a Choice

How close do you come before you hit?

I love the ‘La Chute’ photo exhibition of Denis Darzacq, inspired by the Parisian riots of ’05. 

Darzacq claims ‘La Chute’ captures a generation in freefall, where no-one sees or cares if these youths will fall from the sky to their deaths on the concrete.

For me, however, they hold out hope. They have not yet hit. They are passive. There is choice. There is a moment which is not yet decided. 

Perhaps I see hope because despite the claim that these bodies are falling, we all know that B-boys and traceurs can defy gravity. Youth does not die. It just gets older. And heavier.

See ‘La Chute’ here.