TITLE: Win or Lose

This rugby team was playing a very hard and physycal match, crucial for the qualification in the championship. They were all very focused and full of will to win. Instead they lost, for one try at five minutes before the end. But they played so much at their best level and felt so close to each other as a group, that in the end they were pretty much the happiest guys on Earth, regardless of the score. Playing and fighting. The success is in the process, not always in the result. And so, in sport as in life, what does win or lose really means? This portfolio refers to Rugby Parma Team in Italian Championship 2023/2024.

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).