denis darzacq

La chute
Denis Darzacq's series of photographs, La Chute (The Fall), was inspired by the French Riots of 2005, as well as his memory of bodies falling from the WTC towers four years before. The series comments on a generation of youths in freefall, in a society unprepared to catch them. To create these images without resorting to photoshop, he sought out Parisian hip-hop and freestyle dancers who were fit enough to hold the positions he was looking for, and able to take the constant hits against concrete for up to two hours while he photographed them, against the most banal modern architecture he could find.