Names: Claudio Ciceri [Author and Publisher] Gabriele Sironi, Walter Ferraioli, Riccardo Sironi [Co-Authors]
Cover Design: Kevin Patterson - Adrien Roger
Layout & Design: Kevin Patterson - Stefan Jensen
‘The Game of Basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feeling of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, giving me the greatest respect and love for the Game.’
- Michael Jordan, six time NBA champion
STREET BASKET IS A SOCIETY OF ITS OWN
Playing with visual contrasts, 'Basketball Reawakening' depicts the solitude that exists in our hyper-connected world today. (of which we propose some passages of the book) 'We want to show how people are influenced by this new technological age. Many people feel isolated and depressed. In our work, we depict these contradictions by using faded colors to represent this sad reality.' Though uncomfortable in their loneliness, we create images that are pleasant to look at, and which awaken a sense of optimism. Maybe the future isn’t so bleak after all.
This book is an intimate and evocative account of the ebbs and flows of life on a basketball court. The photographs portray the genuine personalities of the players who 'live' on that basketball court, and it doesn't matter that the participants are usually un-uniformed or even playing 'shirts versus skins'. Included as part of the narrative are the important skills learned on the basketball court, showing readers that their time spent 'to make street basket' is meaningful beyond the Sport itself. The images tell stories of anger, hopes, arrivals, and departures, providing an extraordinarily original vision rarely proposed by everyday life.
