elinor carucci

This week I have been studying Elinor Carucci. She was born in Israel and later moved to New York. A large amount of her work focuses on her intimate relationships with her parents, her husband and recently her children.

But her work I am drawn to most is called "Diary of a Dancer" where she wanted to document her early life as a dancer as she travelled around from different venues in the evenings. The things I love about this work is they mostly don't look staged and have a documentary rawness to them. The colours as beautiful as well and the widescreen format is also really interesting. You feel as if you are there in the frame transported to that moment with her. This image below is one of my favourites. It is moody and dark and most of all not contrived. It has a real sense of being almost an accident. Where the light hits her face and arm is beautiful.