Biographie
Emanuele Brutti studied photography in Milan at the “John Kaverdash Academy” .
Présentation
There is a strong connection between boxing and street. The road is seen as the first ring in which young boxer fighting to build a future. The common people are accustomed to think a boxer like a stray dog that has nothing to do with the majority of the population that surrounds it. In Italy today lots of things about amateur boxing have changed. Today the boxers fighting in the gyms of the Italian province 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 provinces that's why I'd like to describe the environment in which I lived and that helped me to form me first of all as a person and than as an athlete. That's why I spent the last two years documenting amateur boxing matches and sharing with the boys that I photographed the moments before 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.