Julien Benhamou is the photographer of dance, muscle and movement. Whether he shoots outdoors or in the studio, it flies and twirls, the style is ethereal, the dynamics constructed like a rhythmic measure, in which one does not get bored. Because that is what it is; even if the image remains fixed, the object is versatile, volatile, mobile, animated by the cadence. The spectator is breathless, he beats the rhythm with a slight nod, because the show is alive, it comes alive before his eyes to allow him to project himself into the room, into the scene. Through his art, Julien captures the poetry of curves and taut and bandaged lines. He offers us the spectacle of aestheticism, the movement frozen, frozen in its eternity. Forget the academic image of classical ballets, the poses are freed from conventions, references to fashion archetypes are claimed: opaline artificial lights with iridescent reflections, games of material and texture, dancers posing like mannequins... Because his models are artists, dancers, great dancers, elegance itself.
