PUNCH
A VISUAL STORY BY JÜRGEN BÜRGIN
PUNCH is a photography book by Jürgen Bürgin. It's an intimate and revealing journey into the world of boxing in New York, Berlin, and Lisbon.
Official Selection and Honorable Mention
International Photography Awards 2023
It’s an immersive and dark visual narrative that follows boxing fighters and clubs from the training and preparation phase to the thrill of the fight, and the moment of victory. A dramatic look into the vivid details of a classic sport, with a universal and timeless influence on popular and visual culture.
"This story never changes, and yet it never ceases to engage the eye with its infinite variations. This work is a masterful capture of light and darkness, literally and in metaphor, in a way that is both unique and in line with the great classics."
128 pages, including a booklet.
Hardcover 30 x 25 cm / English
Author: Jürgen Bürgin
Texts: Jürgen Bürgin, Yuri Lopes Pereira
ISBN 978-989-53712-0-4
Release date: December 2022
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About the Author
Jürgen Bürgin is a photographer. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His work tells of special and mysterious worlds, like boxing and the circus. In his street photographs, Bürgin looks for the unusual, the poetic and the surprising in everyday life across big cities throughout Europe, Asia and North America.
His work has been exhibited in several galleries and museums around the world, including the South Street Seaport Museum in New York, the Fotogalerie Friedrichshain in Berlin, the RAW Gallery in Rotterdam, the Amerika Haus in Tübingen and the Central European House of Photography in Bratislava.
For more information about the author read Jürgen Bürgin - an interview.
PUNCH is an intimate and revealing journey into the world of boxing in New York, Berlin and Lisbon.
Author: Jürgen Bürgin
Texts: Jürgen Bürgin, Yuri Lopes Pereira
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