Get Tripped Up by These Tricked-Out Photographs
A new photography collaboration aims for an unbearable lightness
Isn’t gravity a drag? Sometimes it can feel that way, but if you look at this sprightly image you might not feel so weighed down. It was taken by the French-born photographer Dimitri Daniloff, who got the idea for the work after seeing children climbing giant nets in a park in Hakone, Japan—“playing with gravity,” he realized. He photographed members of the Villarreal “tricking” team practicing on the beach in Castellón, Spain, enthusiasts of a sport combining the acrobatic stunt-walking of parkour with a flip-happy style of gymnastics. The net was added later using computer graphics software by Sven Hauth, a German digital artist, as part of a series they call “Meshology.” Consider the whimsy of a leaping body gracefully entangled in Hauth’s bright green, elastic-looking net as an invitation to play in any way you want, laws of physics be damned. “I like to question what is possible,” Daniloff says, “and what is real.”