Rio de Janeiro, 2014... 30 degrees centigade, high levels of
humidity, 12 football cities spread accross Brazil from North to
South....a challenge for all teams, visitors and fans. But Brazil as a
country managed to organize the FIFA event and Germany won the
final against Argentina.
But this was not the only challenge. In this special World Cup Year,
Brazil had to face that football can´t be everything. Anti-World
Cup protests took place and more are to be expected, claiming in
general more money to be spent on social projects.
Beside this, football fans from around the world enjoyed this
wonderful city, claiming to be the most beautiful on earth.
Fans also occupied the streets of all main football cities and
started to show what football really means "Outside" the greens
and stadiums.
It is more than a passion...it is about fanaticism, feelings, pains,
phantasies, dreams, emotions, religions, recognition, believing,
blood in veins....involving families, churches, politics...Some of
them would even give their life it!
This is a capture from a body of work I did during the FIFA WC
2015
Peter Bauza is a German photographer who works in the documentary and storytelling world. He is very committed to social and geopolitical issues especially in the areas of conservation, global health, diminishing cultures, sustainability and the environment. He has resided in South America and Europe for more than 20 years and also frequently travels to Africa.
Peter’s work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and cultural spaces in Berlin, Lille, Perpignan (Visa pour LImage), Paris, Siena, Daejeon (Korea), Milan, Quito, Moscow, Salta, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach, California.
He has been published in Aftenposten, The Guardian, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, GEO, LA NACION, Leica M Magazine, LFI, Marie Claire, Volkskrant, Stern, NZZ, doc! Magazine, Vrij, Days Japan, NYT Lens, Courrier international, Vanity Fair, VSD, Alma Magazine, Clarin, El Federal, Die Zeit, DOUBLETruck Magazine, DF, among others.
Awards WorldPressPhoto 2017, Visa Pour L'Image 2016 (Visa D'or), American Photography AP31+32, LAF 5, POYLat 2017, Prix De La Photographie Paris, Days Japan Photojournalism Award 2016, Mifa, Hansel-Mieth, among others.
