Mallakhamb

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Lucas Dragone
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Mallakhamb a traditional Indian sport in which a gymnast performs feats and poses on a vertical wooden pole or rope. In India mallakhamb is considered as a sport, it is not a form of circus or dance. It is related to wrestling and bodybuilding, it can look like the pole became the opponent for the wrestler.Mallakhamb is facing the risk of extinction. Mallakhamb is an important element of India's sporting heritage which needs to be preserved.

Biography

Lucas Dragone is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work moves between the poetic and the documentary, the intimate and the universal. Rooted in physical theatre, studied at the Lassaad International Theater School in Brussels in the tradition of Jacques Lecoq, his work explores identity, culture, and ritual with a quiet reverence for the human spirit. Exhibited internationally, including at the Musée du Louvre.
Awards

- IPA 2017 2nd Place in Event category with the "Fekat Circus" Story. - IPA 2016 1st place in the Editorial : Sports category With the story "Mallakhamb" - TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS 2016 - 2nd place - editorial Conflict - with the « Refugees » portraits. - SEEME EXPOSURE AWARDS AT LE LOUVRE MUSEUM PARIS 2015 - digital display in the « body collection » published in a book on the « body collection ». - MIFA 2016 MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS - 2nd place winner - event sport - Akhada series - IPOTY INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2015 - first place winner - editorial: sports (professional) with the story « mallakhamb » - 2015-2016 GOLDEN ORCHID INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL - third prize – with the story « faces of violence » - FESTIVAL PRÉSENCE(S) PHOTOGRAPHIE MONTÉLIMAR - digital display