Concrete Playground

Dance and photography often make for a troubled marriage: one lives for motion and temporality while the other is bent on freezing movement and time.

In an attempt to reconcile the differences between the two, Hamish Ta-mé's new series of images of urban dancers captures simultaneous stillness and movement, fleetingness and permanence, weightlessness and powerful athleticism, elevation and coming down.

Harnessing a technique that is somewhere between photography and video, he built a special lighting rig that allowed him to shoot bursts of 40 still frames in 4 seconds. The images have been composited into large format prints and video works, which will be on show at Depot Gallery from Tuesday night under a collective title that refers to post-orgasm melancholy.