Imagine: 1.5 miles worth of gaffer tape in blue, seven assistants and two anamorphosis, parkour, or anamorphosis, artists. A tennis match. You don’t have to wonder what this “picture” would look like for very long, because the photos that decorate this page are actually the results of the said “picture.”
Ford says, “This was the most difficult shoot I’ve ever had to do.” For the uninitiated anamorphosis, is a distorted perspective or projection that requires the viewer to be in a certain vantage point for the image to be correctly viewed. Holbein’s “The Ambassadors” is a famous example of the anamorphosis. A distorted skull is visible in the foreground. From the front, it is difficult to read the skull; from the side, it becomes clear.”
The original shoot was for an Avaunt Magazine editorial. The team carefully mapped out the boundaries for a tennis court inside the rundown swimming pool, to deliberately distort perceptions of space. The anamorphic picture can be seen correctly on the second-floor balcony of the building.
Ford says, “We spent three freezing days setting up and filming this anamorphic Tennis match.” “Everything’s real. The TSF Crew team, led by Papy and Milouz, laid out the tennis court by hand. David Banks and Kevin Lancombe, parkour artists from Parkour Generations, risked their lives to create this image. They jumped off balconies and ran along the walls sideways.
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