Colin Dancel is an image-maker and Filipino photographer.

She first found her wings through fashion—documenting its bare and beautiful machinations behind the curtains. From this, she digs deeper, continuing her thread of work by grounding herself within and around her subjects.

Can an image be tactile?

Her curiosity lends sharpness to the intangible by revealing or obscuring detail. In the rage and the quiet, emotion is found in minute lesions of light and dark, carving out its own form. Her concentrated bodies of image-work have been strung together in exhibitions with Tarzeer Pictures, Worlds Through Minds, Nude Floor, & more.

Along with that, she captures persistence—(photography, after all, is a remnant of light that protests its own nonexistence). See her portraits on the cover of Vogue Philippines, MEGA, and in luminous form on various L’Officiel editorials that attest to this: beauty born out of persistence, subjects captured in earnest. You look at eachother with the same striking honesty.

She finds the divergence of these tactile nuances in subjects that move and evolve with form, seeking to both break them down and build them up. Imprints of movement have allowed her to challenge the notion of stillness. An impossible weightlessness, contortion, a primal need to make something—anything.

Colin makes images that breathe.

Out of Print / Choreographed Archives / Preview Creative 25 / ACCIB Women’s Month / Purveyr / Philippine Star / Noli Soli / Oyuna London / Flowe / Vogue