New portfolio work: Girl Fight
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under People Photography, Portfolio
I’ve been working on a street fighting themed series lately. I find it a really interesting subject to explore from the standpoint of story driven location lighting.
See more images and the story behind them after the jump…
Tags: 580ex, boxer, dramatic, female, fighter, flash, Lighting, muay thai, Portfolio, portrait
Muay Thai Photos
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under On Assignment, People Photography, Photojournalism & Story Telling, Travel Photography
Recently i spent about 6 weeks in Thailand, of which about 2 weeks were spent documenting the Thai Boxing scene in Thailand’s second largest city, Chiang Mai. Located in Thailand’s north, relatively close to Burma (Myanmar) and Laos, Chiang Mai is a a cosmopolitan city, rich in culture and a hub of the Thai Boxing scene in Northern Thailand.
The National sport of Thailand, Thai Boxing (Muay Thai) permeates Thai culture in a similar way that Australian Rules Football does here in Australia. There is one major difference however, and that is that like Western boxing, Thai boxing is viewed as a ‘poor man’s sport’, whereby the Thai bourgeois shuns the seemingly violent and archaic brutality of the sport.
Young boxers live and breath Muay Thai, training 6 hours each day, 6 days a week and after seeing the way these guys work, how they push their bodies to the limit, the tuly must be some of the most athletic people on the planet!
Tags: assignment, boxing, muay thai, photojournalism, thailand, travel
