Hidden behind the title La llum que captura l’esport (The Light that Captures Sports) is the etymological and semantic origin of the term “photograph”, a nineteenth-century discipline formed by two words of Greek origin: φως (light) and γραφη (writing). Thus, we can say that the notion of photography holds within it the concept of writing or drawing through the use of light. If we add that photography renders the miracle of reflecting a part of our life in a specific time and place, we can extract that recreating moments of people who practice sports means writing about them through light.
Practising sports can be a way to have fun, to enjoy nature, to share moments of strength and personal improvement with others, and to put into practice the maxim – also Greek- of ‘Know thyself’.
La llum que captura l’esport is an attempt to communicate these feelings by representing anonymous figures who find their own greatest revelation in sports. And given the impossibility of disassociating individuals from their actions, each photograph that illustrates a moment of sports tension acquires meaning in the portrait of the main figure; hence, an innermost expression as only a picture is able to capture.
