Take It Like a Man

 

Take It Like a Man - pencil drawing on 300lb Fabriano Artistico paper. Size:18 x 40 cm, 2021, Anton Terziev, Photo: © the artist. Courtesy the author

Foto material used: Amanda Nunes vs Cris Cyborg UFC 232, took part Fabruary 2021

“It is no secret I have been a victim of online bullying. At times in my career it has felt like there has been a team of writers using the internet to shape the public’s vision of my company’s brand. Often attempting to make me look like the face of anabolic abuse in the sport of MMA,

It should never be acceptable for a company to allow their employees to develop a culture where sexual harassment, racial prejudices, or female discrimination are acceptable in the work place.” Cris Cyborg


Credits: Svetoslav Todorov - journalist, editor and writer

Part of No Time for Losers series (2019-)

In the series No Time for Losers I examine just that – what it takes from you, what and whom you pay, who constructs the content of success as a symbol and metaphor, what is its shelf life? I do it through the well-known moment of triumph, mandatory for sport photographers. A freeze-frame, in which I comment on the role interrelations between the award, the awardee and the award presenter.

I hit the brakes on the rat race for quick, immediate, instagrammable success. This concept is like a tomb. A remarkable pantheon, which you furnish meticulously with awards, trophies in your CV and what not, to the last day of your life.

Whoever wants to be a „relevant participant in the processes“ knows that things like vulnerability, exposedness and sensitivity smell of failure, they don’t make you   competitive on the market. Like in sports, whose direct aesthetics I borrow for my series.

From an early age, you have to run in the right lane or track. Lest you compete on top level but outside of the field, or even worse – out of the range of the cameras reporting the game from the pitch.

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