04 / 05 · 2025 to 2026

Fighters and athletes

Private clients · Muay Thai, MMA, jiu-jitsu, wrestling

I am a jiu-jitsu black belt and I have spent fifteen years in the martial arts and fight-sport world. I know what a hard round costs, what the walk to the cage feels like, and how much of the sport happens in the quiet moments between. That is where these pictures come from. Fighters are easy to photograph badly, all flexing and borrowed grit, so I do the opposite: stay through the whole session, work with the light that is there, and wait until nobody is performing. A sparring night at a Muay Thai gym, portraits of wrestlers and grapplers, made by someone the athletes recognise as their own. It lets me tell their stories with purpose and stay true to who they are.