- Mar 15, 2024
Updated: Oct 6, 2024
In 2010, Sasha Onyschchenko ended his professional dancing career and transitioned to become a full-time commercial photographer. But it wasn't until he moved to Montreal in 2015 that he rediscovered his love for ballet.
He began working with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, where his wife is a soloist. He has also worked with the Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, The Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada, Eifman Ballet, Margie Gillis, and others.
He is drawn to working with passionate subjects involving musicians, dancers and artists.
He wrote an essay in 2021 about how he fell back in love with ballet through his dance photography.
Updated: Oct 6, 2024
Jennifer Curry Wingrove of San Diego, CA, talks about her transition from a professional dancer with the California Ballet to becoming a professional dance photographer. Her work earned her the Grand Prize award at the 2022 Pas de Deux Dance Photo Competition, with the Grand Prize being based on her body of work submitted to the competition.
In this Pas de Deux Photo webinar, Jennifer talks about her early inspirations and her development as a photographer.
She breaks down the images in the photo competition that as a body of work earned her the grand prize.
Jennifer's Website: https://www.wingrovestudiosphotography.com/
Jennifer's IG: https://www.instagram.com/jennifer.curry.wingrove/
Visit the Host Ron McKinney's website: http://www.ronmckinneyphoto.com
Follow Ron on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ronmckinneyphoto
Updated: Oct 6, 2024
Andrew Bowens of Greensboro, NC, considers his studio to be a "creative sanctuary for movement atists." His mission is to create scroll-stopping artistic dance photography, portfolio images that get you noticed, and audition pictures that accentuate your best lines.
He did just that with his submission of a studio image of Jillian Kerr won the Teen Category and seemed to be the image that drew the most attention in the Photo Comp Top 15 Gallery at the Pas de Deux Dance Photography Conference in Austin.
Down below the winning image are two webinar videos. The first is the full video (1 hour 31 minutes) of Andrew talking about his journey in photography, including talking about his many images that made the Top 15 or Finalist in the 2022 Pas de Deux Dance Photo Competition.
The second video is 50 minutes from the full video where he talks about his images and what it was like to learn he had won the Teen Category at the Conference while he was watching the IG live stream of the awards announcement.
You can see more of Andrew's work here: https://abowenstudios.com/
Follow him on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/abowenstudios/
Full Video:
Andrew talks about his competition images:
Pas de Deux host Ron McKinney's website: https://www.ronmckinneyphoto.com/
Follow Ron on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/ronmckinneyphoto/