The Enhanced Games: Vanity Fair Photographer: Mateusz Stefanowski Heidi: Much of your work explores the relationship between humans and nature. How did that relationship inform the athletes’ in-studio work? My personal work is largely about slowing down and observing, finding the extraordinary in quiet, overlooked moments. With the Enhanced Games athletes, I tried to bring that same attention into the studio. We shot in Dubai, in a space that felt controlled and almost clinical on the surface, but what I was looking for was something underneath that, the texture of skin, the weight of a body at rest, the way muscle holds tension even when someone is still. Nature has always taught me to look closer. That’s what I was doing here. Why did you choose tight framing? Because I wasn’t interested in the spectacle. These athletes exist in a world of performance and spectacle already. What felt more honest and more interesting to me was proximity. Getting close enough that you stop reading…
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