(2014)
There
is a strong connection between boxing and the street. The road is seen as the
first ring in which young boxers fighting to build a future. Common people are
accustomed to think a boxer like a stray dog that has nothing to do with the
majority of the population that sorrounds it. In Italy today lots of things
about amateur boxing have changed. Today boxers fighting in the italian
province gyms’ are mostly children who attend the school and who consider
amateur boxing a sport like any other but they practice it also to confront
against their fears and indirectly to confront themselves with the stereotypes
of most of the part of the society that sees boxing as a violent sport and
nothing else. Me too I have been an amateur boxer who fought in northern
Italy’s province that’s why I’d like to describe the environment in whch I
lived and that helped me to form my personality. I documented amateur boxing
matches sharing with the boys that I photographed the moments befor and after
rising in the ring their fears and their expectations, the desire to get
involved and to prove to themselves before the public what they’re able to do.
JUST ANOTHER BOXER had been featured in:
- BITUME
PHOTOFEST Lecce (2014) exhibition
- Les Boutographies - Montpellier (2015) exhibition
- ACTUPHOTO
- The eye of photography
- En revenant de l'expo