These photographs were taken in various shopping center aisles. Some at the grocery store, others in hardware or home furnishing stores. These are centers of travel and daily life - places where ordinary people come every day to do ordinary things. All the people in the pictures are young, and are caught in the middle of various extreme motions. At first, it looked to me like several of the pictures were taken in the middle of an elaborate fight scene, with one of the participants off-camera, and the one shown having just been knocked back or down, falling through the air. Not all the pictures matched this feel, though, and after reading the description, I could see that they were indeed doing some sort of street dancing.
By pairing the ordinary scenery with the not-so-ordinary poses of the subjects, this series seems to convey the idea that such actions are in fact ordinary themselves. People who are truly being themselves all the time will feel more free to do things like dance even in public places, and should not be thought of as eccentric for doing what they love.
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