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MOVEMENT & MOTION · 1990s

Mombasa Tigers

The Mombasa Tigers — a troupe of beach acrobats working the tideline at low tide, when the sand turns hard and bright enough to launch from. No rigging, no net, just a long flat stretch of white and a lot of trust in each other.

Captured on medium-format stock, chasing the half-second where gravity hasn't caught up yet. The same phenomenon occurs during the process of editing as it does the shoot — you become blinded by the moments stored in your memory while taking the shots, and have to let the film tell you what actually happened.