The game, the dance, the beauty of the bodies but also the concentration, the commitment, the instant before the shot and the smile of victory.
There is the image of sport in all its richness and complexity in Portraits of sport, a photographic project that brings together 35 portraits taken by a great photographer: Fabio Lovino.
From 11 to 19 March at Palazzo Merulana in Rome.
"Over time I have photographed many sportsmen for different reasons, from covers to fashion shoots, male and female athletes who have won the Olympics or, for example, great shoots such as the one for Io Donna, which saw all the Olympic athletes forming an inscription on the model of the Momix, which reproduced Italy. From that service trying to bring out minor sports: sailors, rowing, pentathlon, mountain biking, judo and ante not only the most famous".
In short, the great star photographer, who brought along his lens Nanni Moretti, Marco Bellocchio, Margherita Buy, David Lynch, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Tilda Swinton - just to name a few - says that this exhibition also arises from the fact that over time it has enriched "the archive with many faces of sportsmen".
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I wasn't so convinced but I had so much material and so many photos that I cared about and that represented me.
Then Roberta De Fabritiis, curator of the exhibition and one of the founders of Sport Senza Frontiere, was able to make an excellent choice.
This non-profit organization of theirs also guarantees sport to the less well-off, and this seems wonderful to me.
There is strong interest in taking the show around the world and expanding it, we will have to include Marcell Jacobs and Gianmarco Tamberi for example.
Personally I wouldn't have put anyone from football, but then I gave in to Gianluca Vialli, with a view to talking about cleanliness in sport and the many victims of illnesses due to the use of the wrong substances."
curator of the exhibition and one of the founders of Sport Senza Frontiere, she was able to make an excellent choice.
This non-profit organization of theirs also guarantees sport for the less well-off, and this seems wonderful to me.
There is strong interest in taking the show around the world and expanding it, we will have to include Marcell Jacobs and Gianmarco Tamberi for example.
Personally I wouldn't have put anyone from football, but then I gave in to Gianluca Vialli, with a view to talking about cleanliness in sport and the many victims of illnesses due to the use of the wrong substances."
curator of the exhibition and one of the founders of Sport Senza Frontiere, she was able to make an excellent choice.
This non-profit organization of theirs also guarantees sport for the less well-off, and this seems wonderful to me.
There is strong interest in taking the show around the world and expanding it, we will have to include Marcell Jacobs and Gianmarco Tamberi for example.
Personally I wouldn't have put anyone from football, but then I gave in to Gianluca Vialli, with a view to talking about cleanliness in sport and the many victims of illnesses due to the use of the wrong substances."
we will have to include Marcell Jacobs and Gianmarco Tamberi for example.
Personally I wouldn't have put anyone from football, but then I gave in to Gianluca Vialli, with a view to talking about cleanliness in sport and the many victims of illnesses due to the use of the wrong substances."
we will have to include Marcell Jacobs and Gianmarco Tamberi for example.
Personally I wouldn't have put anyone from football, but then I gave in to Gianluca Vialli, with a view to talking about cleanliness in sport and the many victims of illnesses due to the use of the wrong substances."
In short, over time, "I have described a different sport, which is also but not only beauty, it is social value. There is a photo of Max Biaggi, two minutes before taking to the track, concentrated in meditation on the race. In the pits, no No one has to be there before the race, I could stay there a little hidden and we'd glance at each other in complicity. I seized the moment before it became a bullet".
But the idea is also to witness all sports, diving, swimming, motorcycling, basketball, skiing, judo, karate and boxing.
"Cammarelle, Blandamura and then Busà will come to the exhibition because they have exposed themselves so much in the battle against bullying".
There are more posed photos, others playful: "The athletes are all boys and play. Quadarella, 3 gold medals,
she came to me for a service and had forgotten her medals: 'maybe I have it in the drawer of the car' she said and it was really there.
Busà I'm going to photograph him in an Olympic center 'But do I have to bring a kimono?
he's doing the washing,' he tells me.
They are guys with a disenchanted approach, a breath of beautiful purity". Then with Vialli "it was a wonderful meeting for a cover: he had to throw a ball, I took a huge one from pilates.
I hear a bang: he knocked out the art director and the make-up artist". "Which ones am I related to?
I am attached to all of them.
There are them, athletes who know they are hanging by a thread and everything can change in an instant.
And I with my waiting method, who entertain them by waiting for the moment and shooting for the moment that really captures them".
I have in the drawer of the car' he told me and it was really there.
Busà I'm going to photograph him in an Olympic center 'But do I have to bring a kimono?
he's doing the washing,' he tells me.
They are guys with a disenchanted approach, a breath of beautiful purity". Then with Vialli "it was a wonderful meeting for a cover: he had to throw a ball, I took a huge one from pilates.
I hear a bang: he had knocked out the art director and the make-up artist "." Which ones am I related to?
I am attached to all of them.
There are them, athletes who know they are hanging by a thread and everything can change in an instant.
And I with my waiting method, who entertain them by waiting for the moment and shooting for the moment that really captures them".
I have in the drawer of the car' he told me and it was really there.
Busà I'm going to photograph him in an Olympic center 'But do I have to bring a kimono?
he's doing the washing,' he tells me.
They are guys with a disenchanted approach, a breath of beautiful purity". Then with Vialli "it was a wonderful meeting for a cover: he had to throw a ball, I took a huge one from pilates.
I hear a bang: he had knocked out the art director and the make-up artist "." Which ones am I related to?
I am attached to all of them.
There are them, athletes who know they are hanging by a thread and everything can change in an instant.
And I with my waiting method, who entertain them by waiting for the moment and shooting for the moment that really captures them".
But do I have to bring my kimono?
he's doing the washing,' he tells me.
They are guys with a disenchanted approach, a breath of beautiful purity". Then with Vialli "it was a wonderful meeting for a cover: he had to throw a ball, I took a huge one from pilates.
I hear a bang: he knocked out the art director and the make-up artist". "Which ones am I related to?
I am attached to all of them.
There are them, athletes who know they are hanging by a thread and everything can change in an instant.
And I with my waiting method, who entertain them by waiting for the moment and shooting for the moment that really captures them".
But do I have to bring my kimono?
he's doing the washing,' he tells me.
They are guys with a disenchanted approach, a breath of beautiful purity". Then with Vialli "it was a wonderful meeting for a cover: he had to throw a ball, I took a huge one from pilates.
I hear a bang: he knocked out the art director and the make-up artist". "Which ones am I related to?
I am attached to all of them.
There are them, athletes who know they are hanging by a thread and everything can change in an instant.
And I with my waiting method, who entertain them by waiting for the moment and shooting for the moment that really captures them".
I hear a bang: he knocked out the art director and the make-up artist". "Which ones am I related to?
I am attached to all of them.
There are them, athletes who know they are hanging by a thread and everything can change in an instant.
And I with my waiting method, who entertain them by waiting for the moment and shooting for the moment that really captures them".
I hear a bang: he knocked out the art director and the make-up artist". "Which ones am I related to?
I am attached to all of them.
There are them, athletes who know they are hanging by a thread and everything can change in an instant.
And I with my waiting method, who entertain them by waiting for the moment and shooting for the moment that really captures them".
The initiative is promoted and organized by Sport Senza Frontiere on the occasion of the Acea Run Rome The Marathon and places the exhibition in the calendar of special events promoted by the Rome Marathon.
In fact, it will take place right at the turn of the famous sports competition on 19 March.
The exhibition offers the possibility, through the purchase of the exhibited photos (through an auction), to support the activities of Sport Without Borders.
It is also possible to make a donation and take part in the draw for a prize from 11 to 30 March: a personal or family portrait, created by Fabio Lovino.
The exhibition enjoys the Patronage of Coni and the collaboration of Palazzo Merulana and the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation, which offers a splendid location to the project, CoopCulture and Esco.