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Portraits of high school athletes that go beyond their outer strength and reveal their inner drive
the washington post
Jun 9, 2019
By James Lattanzio and Chloe Coleman
June 6In summer 2016, I decided to act on a long-simmering idea to do a series of portraits of teenage athletes, a project that was way out of my comfort zone and in an area of photography that I lacked much professional experience with. My daughter is an athlete, and I had been very involved in youth and high school sports. Being a photographer, I had started photographing her games from the time she began playing as a child. Even after she moved on to college, I continued to shoot for my local high school teams mainly for my enjoyment of it, while getting to know many of the players and coaches.
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