This captivating frame was created by L.A. photographer Brian Kuhlmann during a shoot called Cameras and Dancers at the Santa Monica Pier in California. The main crux of the event—which, according to Kuhlmann, is the brainchild of choreographer (and Jacob Jonas The Company namesake) Jacob Jonas—is that photographers and dancers meet at a specific location and then go off and create images. “Everything is created on the fly as inspiration hits and everyone is excited to see what we can make when we overlap different art forms,” Kuhlmann explains.

This was the 52nd meet up (Kuhlmann says he has attended three). “There was a free dance concert on the pier that weekend and most of the dancers came out to help promote the event,” he says. “There were 20 or so dancers and about a dozen photographers on this particular morning. Every 30 to 45 minutes people switched to the next dance if they so wished.”

This image is of Simon Greenberg. “He dances with the dance company Diavolo here in L.A.,” says Kuhlmann. “It was one of the first images I created of him. He has amazing energy and control.”

Kuhlmann continues: “For most of my career, I have found inspiration from energy and movement. My lifestyle and portrait work also contains these properties. Dancer’s control and ability to move are especially interesting to me.”

(Shot in available light with a Canon 5D Mark IV using a 24mm EF f/1.4 II lens at f/4, 1/1600 of a sec. and ISO 400.)

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