Andy Day - Parkour Photography

The first solo exhibition by British photographer Andy Day. Since 2002 Day has documented the rise of parkour through its communities in London, France, Nicaragua and India.

Parkour is the non-competitive sport of moving through mainly urban landscapes by running, climbing and jumping. Participants run along a route, attempting to navigate obstacles in the most efficient way possible, using only their bodies. Skills such as vaulting, rolling, swinging and wall scaling are employed. Parkour can be practiced anywhere, but areas dense with obstacles are preferable and it is most commonly practiced in urban areas.

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The flâneur and the traceur (a parkour practitioner) both have their origins in Paris. In the nineteenth century the flâneur walked the city in order to experience it and over 150 years later traceurs in the Parisian suburbs found new ways of moving through the very same spaces.

Day’s photographic work focuses on the built environment and social interaction, and through Parkour he documents new ways of seeing and moving through the city. The exhibition aims to challenge our understanding of how spaces are used and offer alternative ways of looking at urban design that might otherwise be ignored or forgotten.

More information:
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www.parkourgenerations.com

A Hereford Photography Festival touring exhibition

Gallery opening times:

Wednesday to Saturday, 10am - 5pm
Sunday, 11am - 3pm

Event Date:

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The Public Opinion

Mike Maynard: trolling is so 1990s - please just appreciate the quality of Andy's photography and remove yourself from useless critiques. It's utterly pointless. If you have nothing useful to say [which apparently you don't], please keep away from the internet.

Submitted by Javier Dehner (not verified) on Thu, 29/03/2012 - 12:09.

Firstly I can only take objection to the unqualified and a touch sarcastic comments made above by Mike Maynard.

Being an avid follower of the talented English photographer Andy Day, who, in my humble opinion, is one of the most exciting and "original" photographers to come onto the scene in several years. Firstly he has a physical and working knowledge of his subject, which he skillfully translates with his cameras into a wealth of sought after compositions, which only a tiny minority of us mere mortals who ever held, understood and tried to master the technical complexities of a camera could only wish to aspire to.

Andy Day is an artist of the highest calibre, as are his subjects, these extremely talented and balletic gymnastic humans he photographs.

Submitted by Keith Ellery (not verified) on Fri, 10/02/2012 - 20:47.

I have just been on the website to have a look at some of this stuff and it is amazing. I am gutted I wont get a chance to see it in person the picture in India is incredible!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/02/2012 - 19:02.

I can understand why people walked through Paris in the 19th century. Why people do this stuff in the 21st century is beyond me. It seems even more bizarre that someone would want to photograph it. An exhibition at the Public? Bizarre and wholly believable.

Submitted by Mike Maynard (not verified) on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:47.