Juan Carlos Osma, Gentle-Men (B&W 2023)

Unlike rugby players or mine workers male dancers are perceived to be soft or weak, but modern women don't tolerate abusive relationships and they are realising that a gentlemen is the future. Being a ballet dancer myself I see huge challenges both mentally and physically with what we do everyday and here I capture my colleagues and members of West Australian Ballet as a perfect representation of controlled strength, grace and style. They are men, they are gentle, they are the future and that's what I want to say with my art.

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