TITLE: Field_Experiments_1

In 2009 the World Rugby Member Unions identified Integrity, Passion, Solidarity, Discipline, Respect as the defining character-building characteristics of rugby both on and off the field of play.
Just look at these guys. Look at their eyes. You can see happiness, pain, strenght, friendship, loialty, fear, courage, in very challenging situations (also for the photographer) with mud, wind, rain, low light. Rugby as life: a complicated and wonderful field experiment about finding the will to face and enjoy our existence at its maximum level. The serie refers to Rugby Parma Cadetta Team in Italian Series C Championship 2022/2023.

AUTHOR: Milla Mariani (Italy)

Milla Mariani lives ad works in Parma, Italy. As a photographer and artist, her work focuses on landscape and architecture photography and on sport photography (rugby). She was featured in several magazines, websites and collective exhibitions. She won the First Prize at IPA International Photography Awards / Sports Category in 2023 with the project "Field_Experiments". Her works are online on Rugby Parma Flickr page at https://www.flickr.com/photos/rugbyparma/albums/ (rugby photography) and on LensCulture website at https://www.lensculture.com/milla-mariani (landscape photography).