Presenting The Impossible Moving Still

The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it substance, materiality, and space."

- LOIS GREENFIELD

I've spent the last 50 years of my photographic career investigating movement and its expressive potential. My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see. What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened.

The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it substance, materiality, and space. In my photographs, time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity, and an ephemeral moment is solid as sculpture. My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine. I prefer to work outside the constraints of choreography, collaborating with dancers on improvised, non-repeatable, and often high-risk moments. These moments are not plucked from a continuum but exist only as isolated instants. I allow the dancers to project a fluid identity for the camera and showcase a different persona in each photo, producing images that represent dreams of our constantly shifting selves.