This story about people who fallen into a difficult life situation. People who don't give up and find opportunity for a full life. Surgeries, rehabilitation, depression and despair led them to the search for another ways and other meaning for life in new circumstances.
The top of the self-sacrificing desire to conquer the tragic situation for them becomes a playing in basketball. For people who braving itself and who coming to the sports ground to fight and win it’s a kind of challenge to fate.
That history of basketball players, athletes from Russian basketball teams which I got acquainted on the All-Russian tournament of Wheelchair Basketball, in Tyumen city (Siberia, Russia) in 2018-2023.
The project is completed, examples of work can be found here:https://sport.photographer.ru/wheelchair-basketball?lang=eng