TITLE: Cadets, 2022

'Cadets' in sports is just an age-based category. They are teenagers, right before juniors. They're not kids but not professionals yet. When I was planning to shoot a fencing champ I thought the cadets competition would be a training for me, cause they're kinda beginners. As I am in sports photography. But I was really impressed. Their passion during the fight, their anger after the failure, their joy after the win. And of course fooling around and mocking each other while waiting for their bout. Here's everything you might expect from the youths. But all that occurs with the strictness, the grace, with the artistry of classical fencing.

AUTHOR: Aleksei Solomin (Russian Federation)