Kerry Skarbakka

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/01/the-struggle-to-right-oneself-kerry-skarbakka-photographs-himself-in-suspended-peril/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+colossal+%28Colossal%29

It's amazing how quickly people start to link ideas together when you put your ideas out to an audience. My attention has been drawn to the amazing photography of Kerry Skarbakka who suspends his body in perilous situations. I love the angles, the awkwardness, danger and scale distortion. There's also something about the impossibility of the image, and in this case the twisting staircase contributes to the confusion of the angle. If this type of image was recreated in paint, would it loose the movement and spontaneity? The blurring of the hand indicates movement a the point of the image being taken - is it necessary to include detail like this which adheres to the expectations of a photographic image? or can a painted figure or figures suspended in space communicate a sense of falling ?