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Portrait of a shirtless black male boxer with hand wraps posing in front of a blue textured wall by John Blais

John Blais, Photographer, Chicago

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This powerful portrait photograph by John Blais in Chicago captures a muscular black male boxer in a fighting stance with white hand wraps, positioned against a distressed blue wall featuring a large matching mural of himself. The composition plays with scale and duplication, showing a monochrome live-action figure in the foreground overlapping a weathered colour mural in the background. The dramatic lighting highlights muscle definition and skin texture, creating an intense athletic atmosphere.

Keywords

black male boxermale boxerblack boxerboxershirtless boxerboxer with hand wrapshand wraps

Styles

HorizontalCinematicGritty

Techniques

Multiple exposure

Industries

Combat Sports

Background

Street

Context

Portrait / Headshot
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