Because the 2024 Summer time Olympics ceremony kicks off and we wait with bated breath to see what this yr’s competitors holds, a number of the athletes themselves are proud to current the outcomes of their very own artistic output in an exhibition on the Palais de Tokyo. On view at some point of the video games (August 11), the Olympian Artists Programme exhibition contains paintings by seven worldwide athletes, together with French fencing champion Enzo Lefort’s stylized portraits of his nationwide Olympian and Paralympian teammates.
Lefort, a three-time Olympic fencer from French Guiana whose workforce medaled gold and silver in Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro respectively, picked up the digicam in 2017 after connecting with varied photographers all through his sports activities profession. Turning the lens again on his colleagues throughout all sports activities disciplines, Lefort is exhibiting a collection titled Olympic Faces: One French Workforce — a testomony to the variety of athletes united within the objective to win gold for his or her nation.
The photographer’s newest collection is an enlargement of an earlier venture, a photograph e book known as Behind the Masks (2020) that he labored on amid the postponement of the 2020 Summer time Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic, consisting of portraits and element photographs of his fencing teammates. With a watch for the melding of cultures and geographic origins which have rounded out his standpoint, Lefort has mentioned that he “wouldn’t be the person [he is] now with out experiencing this range.”
Along with portraiture, the athlete additionally captures candid, architectural, and panorama scenes, and has additionally labored on visuals for social media and advertising and marketing campaigns for his associate’s Kitesy Martin jewellery and equipment model.
“Images helps me to precise my artistic aspect exterior fencing,” Lefort mentioned.
See extra photos from Olympic Faces: One French Workforce under.
