Numero Netherlands ROOTS 2025

Description

This black and white editorial photograph for the ROOTS project by Numero Netherlands, captured by photographer Ines Santos with production by Ariadna Iglesias and makeup by Diogo Ribeiro, features two shirtless young men standing face to face on an outdoor asphalt sports court. The foreground prominently displays the muscular back and shoulders of a dark-skinned man wearing dark athletic shorts with light side stripes. Facing him in the midground is a white young man with a shaved head, wearing patterned dark shorts and white socks, with a distinctive sun tattoo on his right pectoral muscle. The background shows wire fencing, goal posts, and sparse trees under an overcast sky. Natural daylight illuminates the scene, casting soft shadows on the paved court, which features painted white boundary lines.