TITLE: Core Beton

After a ten-year break, Ironman 70.3 is back in Brasília in 2025 — bringing endurance sport into the sharp lines and open skies of the capital.

Set against the backdrop of iconic modernist architecture, the race creates a unique visual tension: concrete geometry on one side, the sculptural precision of athletes in motion on the other.

Brasília — a city imagined for the future, drawn by Lúcio Costa and sculpted by Oscar Niemeyer — is more than just a stage. As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it carries both historical weight and a kind of utopian abstraction.

The athletes, in their almost space-like gear — sleek helmets, reflective visors, aerodynamic suits — look like they’ve stepped out of the very future Brasília once projected.
They don’t just race through the city; they amplify its vision.

Its vast urban grid mirrors the flow and focus of the competition.
Together, body and city form a kinetic harmony — structure and movement, discipline and velocity.

Perfect for black-and-white photography, this encounter between motion and monument opens space to explore themes of resilience, futurism, and the human scale within built form.

AUTHOR: Arthur Menescal (Brazil)

Arthur Menescal is a photojournalist, documentary photographer and video producer born and based in Brasília, Brazil.
Works as a correspondent in Brazil for newspapers and agencies such as Bloomberg, Getty Images and Factstory. He was part of the team of photographers at the newspaper Correio Braziliense for two and a half years, leaving in 2019. He was also part of the team of photojournalists at Portal Metrópoles between 2021 and 2022.
In 2017, he was one of the photographers selected to compose the latest edition of the book "The Best of Brazilian Photojournalism" by publisher Europa. In 2018, he released his first photographic book entitled "Estrutural Aterrada", which deals with the lives of Recyclable Material Collectors from Estrutural after the closure of the city's landfill.