Feet and Mirrors

• Prize
• Photographer
  Aleksandar Antonijevic, Canada
• Website
  http://www.aleksandarantonijevic.com/homepage.html

Ballet is an intriguing art form. Beautiful, for sure, but also
extremely un-natural and very misunderstood by the general
public.
I was a part of that elite community for over 35 years. I achieved a
huge success, one might say, considering I came from a small
town in the former Yugoslavia. I guess my talent was instinctual
and it gave me a way of feeling excepted, considering I was a
closeted gay man in a country that wasn’t excepting of
homosexuality…
It has been an interesting journey, photographing my former
colleagues in their never ending pursuit of perfection. A new
perspective has formed in my mind, about what it is to be a
classical ballet dancer, in an archaic system that has to keep up
with new definitions of what is acceptable in terms of coaching,
respect of women and an ever increasing physical demands on the
human body!

• Awards
  Silver Award Chromatic Colour Awards 2017 fine art nudes Silver Award Chromatic Colour Awards 2017 fashion Honourable mention Prix de la Photographie Paris nudes