Dan Lim – EnWrapture
Dan Lim
Dan Lim’s visual style is sophisticated, dynamic, cinematic and inviting, appealing to a diverse clientele in advertising, editorial, and fashion industries. His ability to formulate a visual narrative and encapsulate the personalities he photographs has made him a noted international photographer.
Dan has been recognized internationally through numerous international awards for his work in the Advertising and Design Club of Canada, Communication Arts, How Magazine, Applied Arts and the Summit Creative Awards.
“I’m passionate about what I do, and I apply it with equal measures of creativity, common sense, poise, laughter, hard work and professionalism.”
EnWrapture:
I have always been inspired by athletes and their ability to push the human body to it’s limits in order to win. To think that these incredible individuals are often limited by a lack of financial support is an issue I had never been aware of until recently.
In a recent article about the state of amateur sports funding in Canada, written by Kerry Gillespie, she expresses that even gold medal winners have a difficult time securing sponsorship to help offset the high costs of continuing their pursuit of being Olympic champions.
This revelation inspired me to do something about it by means of what I do best – create beautiful inspiring images to help tell their story.
EnWrapture is a dynamic and graphic series of photographs of athletes performing their respective sport against the Canadian Flag. At the athlete’s peak moment, the flag, animated by wind, buoys against the athlete. The interaction between athlete and flag depicts the symbiotic relationship between athlete and country.
Below view a few of the powerful images from EnWrapture.
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| CJ Moore | 10m Diving | |
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| Jameson Tipping | Basketball | |
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| Vanessa Lacas-Warrick | Fencing |
Quick athletes, but quicker lights was the name of the game, which is why I decided to use broncolor’s Scoro packs to power my set. Even with two high powered fans blowing up against the flag, and the athletes quick movements, the Scoros froze the movement with great precision.
Dan Lim is an award winning people and lifstyle photographer based out of Toronto Ontario.
It was a natural decision to use the large satellite reflector as my main light. This reflector has a sublime ability to mimic sunlight and bask the subject in beautiful hard light.
Dan Lim is an award winning people and lifstyle photographer based out of Toronto Ontario.
A big thanks goes out to my whole team and all the athletes for all the hard work and time that they put into this project!!
Dan Lim | Photographer
Jordana Handler | Stylist
Chantal Hubens | Hair & Make up artist
Lisa Vella | Hair & Make up artist
Sébastien Dubois-Didcock | 1st Assistant
Duncan Foy | Assistant
Vicky Kao | Assistant
Anne-Sophie Huot | Assistant
Tim Donnelly | Cameraman & Editor | Iota Creative
Patrick Murphy | Camera Assistant
CJ Moore | 10m Diving
Donna Vakalis | Modern Pentathlon
Jameson Tipping | Basketball
Martin Reader | Beach Volleyball
Vanessa Lacas-Warrick | Fencing
Youssef Youssef | Judo
See the full series for yourself and learn more about each athlete in Dan’s blog http://bit.ly/1LNUHwb
