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HEFT AND WEIGHTLESSNESS

Simon Croft took his camera backstage with the Lviv ballet. The result–our latest photo essay–is mesmerising, with colours like antique jewels in a dusty velvet case.

As Julie Kavanagh wrote, he captures "the lumpishness of swans on dry land alongside flashes of kingfisher-wing transcendence. Like ballet itself, the pictures combine earthbound reality with a glimpse of heaven."