ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This story about people who fallen into a difficult life situation. People who don't give up and find opportunity for a full life. Surgeries, rehabilitation, depression and despair led them to the search for another ways and other meaning for life in new circumstances.
The top of the self-sacrificing desire to conquer the tragic situation for them becomes a playing in basketball. For people who braving itself and who coming to the sports ground to fight and win it’s a kind of challenge to fate.
As a photographer I’m aimed to find such visual solution which tells the audience what stands behind those victories. I sought not to show the inferiority, but how much strength, patience and infinite possibilities lurk within each of us.
The main idea is to show healthy people and people with traumas that our body is just an outer shell which doesn’t mean anything to what we really are.
It shouldn’t have any influence on the quality of life and impose restrictions on our lifestyle.

AUTHOR
Natalia, born in Russia in 1980, works as a professional photographer since 2010. She’s being published as a freelance journalist for regional and federal media. Sports photography is in preference. Has won awards in regional, federal and international photo competitions. Received the medal of the Union of Siberian Photographers “For contribution to the Siberian photography development”.
She’s been working as a studio, wedding and family photographer since 2010. Currently she lives in Tyumen, Siberia, Russia. Member of the Russian Union of Journalists.

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