First Breath

• Photographer
  Travis Magee, United States
• Studio
  Travis Magee Photography

Transformation is a beautifully traumatic process - physical and
emotional - the pain of change and the joy of discovery.

First Breath is a collection of images of transformation. The
restless frozen moments in time when we grow and change and
leave behind the people we once were.

Too often, photography of dancers focuses just on a beautiful
image of a beautiful body, idealizing the obvious and ignoring
the past and the future that lie on either side of the moment.

Like tides carving out the slope of the sand or wind sweeping
across the dunes, I asked the dancers to feel the elements
changing their bodies and shaping their movements.

The forces that transform us are invisible. All we can recognize
is that First Breath as we emerge.

Awards Solo Exhibition at Lincoln Center's the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery

Communication Arts Magazine "Fresh"