Boxing Dream

'Boys begin their training very young, many of them have just one dirty t-shirt and one pair of worn out shoes.'

Gimnasio de boxeo Rafael Trejo, Cuba

by Jan Sochor

here,  here and here

neoromantika

neoromantika.com

Eiki Mori: Tokyo Boy Alone

douban

eikimori

Fashion Victims by Erwin Olaf

erwinolaf

Adam Bouska

 

source: bouska.net

Slavery - Lisa Kristine

"Lisa Kristine, in partnership with Free the Slaves, has produced a groundbreaking work of art: ‘Slavery’, a book of photographs depicting modern-day slavery in India, Nepal and Ghana."

“Slavery flourishes… Less human. The photos within this book make it impossible to fool ourselves. We are not so different."

source

And we are not so different either.
But we like it.

pix

lisakristine.com

freetheslaves.net

Underground Boys

by Axel Duforest

more

City of God

Nicholas Wheeler worked as a priest in London before becoming Priest Missioner in the City of God (Cidade de Deus) in one of Rio de Janeiro's favelas, Brazil. His blog about the City of God here.

'The City of God is now occupied territory. Occupied by the military police. 

Life in places like Cidade de Deus is a parallel society where outlaws are the law. Residents can get electricity, gas, water, tv and internet services for next to nothing by paying a small fee to the bandits.

So as well as closing seven crack houses, the police shut down the pirate TV service, the illegal sale of gas and confiscated motorbikes used by criminals to rob cars in wealthier suburbs.' (details here)

João Pina’s photo essay Gangland – Rio de Janeiro’s Urban Violence

here, here and here

Before - After

Nicolai Howalt: 141 boxers

the more 135 boxers

here

Clinton Fein and our pathology

Torture
Clinton Fein's exhibition
San Francisco, January 2007

'Fein focuses on the choreography and sexualization of torture'

'the images radiate a profound beauty and eroticism that is all at once seductive, disturbing and unsettling'

'As exhausting and uncomfortable as it was for the models, there was something inexplicably erotic and sexaully charged in choreographing the scenes, which in turn, allowed me to understand a little more of the pathology of the torturers.'

artist statement

Clinton Fein's hompage

Young walking naked through Port au Prince

Haiti, 2010

by Cristobal Manuel

'and the jury said in its choice: “The chilling photograph reflects the harmony and the loneliness of man in a chaotic and hopeless.”'

cristobalmanuel

m24digital

capoeira

'The Capoeira fight was started by African slaves in Brazil who probably developed it to look like a dance so they could disguise the fact that they were practicing a martial art from their slave masters.' (livecapoeira.com)

by Andre Cypriano

here and here