The shots related to the “Acrobatic Wheels” project, developed between 2022 and 2023, depict the athletes of the Amateur Sports Association “Giovani & Tenaci,” engaged in training moments and during official matches of the Italian Wheelchair Basketball Championship.
The association, founded in 2017 and based in Rome, is one of the most active in the territory and includes among the sports it promotes, besides Wheelchair Basketball, also fencing, archery, table tennis, and foosball for disabled individuals.
The sports facility where the Association carries out its activities is the one at the Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS complex, an institute for orthopedic and motor rehabilitation of excellence in the Municipality of Rome, located in Via Ardeatina.
It is in this context that the stories of these athletes come to life, it is in this framework that their moments of determination and sporting fervor are born.
A magic atmosphere that allows them to live the wheelchair on which they have been forced by the dramatic events of life as a means to unleash their energy and enthusiasm.
A dimension that gives them back the strength of the sacrifices they have faced, that gives meaning to the vitality regained, thanks to which they become champions of the sport in every sense.
Following the train of thought that unites all 4 projects of the broader work LET’S FLY, even in “Acrobatic Wheels” the author intended to narrate how the human being can go beyond the limits that his physical reality imposes, without accepting them passively.
The gestures and expressions portrayed, as well as the tension and determination captured in the images, are a strong demonstration of that typically human attitude not to resign in the face of unfavorable or even dramatic events in life.
The atmosphere experienced during a championship game, but also during a training session of the Giovani & Tenaci team, is electrifying and allows one to grasp all the energy that athletes invest in this activity.