Circo Muerto - Acrobat in a graveyard
Circo artist Dario Ayala playing amongst the dead in Recoleta Cemetary
Circo artist Dario Ayala playing amongst the dead in Recoleta Cemetary
We often see circus arts performed in a tent, a dome, hanging onto a trapeze, in a cirque du soliel venue. Instead we took those abilities and transposed them into an everyday place showcasing difficult maneuvers in a common context...except the context wasn't as common for some as it was for Dario; a risk-taker, someone who walks on the edge of his life even when he's not on a tight-rope. For this reason it only seemed appropriate to photograph him amongst the dead. We dodged security guards at 8am in Recoleta Cemetary in Buenos Aires, eventually got caught and got kicked out. But we came up with some great shots for his professional reel as a circus artist. A great collaboration.
