Dance – Contre-Jour Art

Draw & Dance’25

Karlo — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:22:29 +0000

Draw & Dance’25

Berlin 2025, Funkhaus

I had the opportunity to participate into a live drawing event with photography.
I wanted to explore again the blurred dance photography with long exposure timing to get the dance in his movement and action. The essence of a dance is the dance and not a still photography nor a still drawing.

I was really happy with my results and the beautiful location and setting and the marvelous dancers.

Link to the dance group https://www.instagram.com/akzeptanzmovement/
and the live drawing location https://www.instagram.com/drinkanddrawberlin/

Blue Moon & Ashes’14

Karlo — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:17:01 +0000

Blue Moon & Ashes

Photo Exhibition in Studio „Herren Simpel“, Hamburg 2016

It is about a Butoh Dance Performance project in cooperation with the awesome Thai German Performance Artist Alyssa Warncke and myself as the Photographer Karlo Walz – Contre Jour Photography.
Self-Expression, Emotions, Energy, Fear, Joy, Bound and Unfold to Freedom is the subject of this Performance. It is more an inner struggle then the reflection of some geopolitical circumstances and changes.
Photography is Art in Action, Voyeurism, and it is also Participation, Immediacy and Mirror of what happens. Making pictures is also impacting what is happening. To increase this situation I used a wide angle lens and get very close (up to a hand breadth) to the artist while doing pictures which forces oneself to move similarly as the artist, foresee what she might do next and from an outer view this might look as a modern dance all together.

Corvin Fashion’25

Karlo — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:32:13 +0000

Fashion Time with Corvin

Upcycling and Spontaneity

We had a blast of time to visit Corvin. Invited Robin to get dressed up by Corvin and make some pictures.
The setting was perfect with him, friends and my model.

Warderhof Bollywood’21

Karlo — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:09:50 +0000

Warderhof Bollywood Performances

BAD SEGEBERG – WARDERHOF 2021 BOLLYWOOD PHOTO SHOOT

At our beloved Warderhof in Schleswig Holstein, close to Hamburg, we setup a scenario of performance with the „Pari Production“ Bollywood Dance Company and did some photography at that location. I tried in addition to get closer to „blurred photography“ by using an exceptional long time exposure in combination with a flash to have both the movement blurred and a bit frozen sharpness by the flashes.

Movimento NYC’15

Karlo — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:47:26 +0000

Movimento in NYC

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY IN NYC, 2015

A few years ago (in Sep 2015) I have done a photo shoot with a performance artist – Boris Khenzykhenov – who is working as an actor on stage at the Broadway. It was incredible beautiful to catch his movements on such a sunny and hot afternoon in New York City.