Manuel Cafini, the Italian based artist who captures motion in photography has just discovered an extension of chronophotography. Known as early Victorian motion photography, chronophotography combines several frames of movement into a single image. The pioneer of this type of photography was French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey who came up with it to describe photographs of motion,…

Alexander Yakovlev is a professional photographer from Moscow, Russia. His work caught our attention upon seeing his photo series of dancers, an impressive collection of ballerinas, break dancers or just professional dancers captured in a perfect balance. Unlike Manuel Cafini, another photographer with a soft spot for motion photography and dancers, who focuses on the…

An engineer turned photographer “by chance”, Italian photographer Manuel Cafini manages to harmoniously combine the technical aspects of photography with the perception and sensitivity of an artist. Entirely self-taught, he has found his visual voice as he’s exploring the art of motion in his works. Here’s our interview with Manuel, in which he tells us…