From the East Village of Manhattan to Bangkok, a career in the underground cinema to the Thai boxing ring. It 's the story of Chantal Ughi, angel face with a background in fashion and now world champion muay thai, sport who struck by when she saw for the first time a fight in a gym in New York. After seven years in the Big Apple with different experiences in the musical, artistic , fashion, movie, Chantal dropped everything to attend a course of martial arts that had haunted. She suppose to stay in Bangkok four weeks. Four years later, at the price of enormous sacrifices and strict self-discipline, she can say that her dream has come true.
Giulio di Sturco is an Italian photographer, born in 1979, currently based in Bangkok, Thailand.
He studied photography at the European Institute of Design and Visual Arts in Rome, and has covered North-American and the South-East Asia issues for many magazines such as L'espresso magazine, Vanity fair, Io Donna, The Daily Telegraph magazine, Time magazine, MarieClaire, geo magazine,The Sunday Times Magazine, Neewsweek
Since 2008 he start a closer collaboration with some of the most important international organization such as Greenpeace, MSF, Unitaid, United Nations, WHO and Action Aid.
