Honorable Mention / 2016 / Press / Sports

Spartans

  • Photographer
    Vasiliy Kolotilov, Russian Federation

"Spartans" is the name of an amateur Moscow based American
football team. The team members are doing their best to keep on
playing their favorite sport amid the economic crisis and ever-
growing anti-American hysteria in Russian society.

Born in 1983. After almost a decade of working as a writing journalist started to study documentary photography in 2015. Participated in the Summer School photography workshop by Andrei Polikanov in 2016. In 2017 participated in the 30th anniversary Eddie Adams Workshop. Also in 2017 was selected as on of the nominees for Photogrvphy Grant.

My first project was completed in 2016 and published by the New York Times Lens blog. My other works were published by such media as The Los Angeles Times, La Presse, Jyllands-Posten, Takie Dela Media etc.