Team Spirit by Eliška Kyselková The Humor of Uniformity and the Exaggeration of Competition

London based photographer, Eliška Kyselková wanted to depict the “playful approach” to sports in her photographic series, Team Spirit. Inspired by the sameness of the players’ uniforms as well as by the uniqueness of each player’s individual movements at any given moment, these are the two elements that take precedence in her photos. The color-infused backdrop of a lawn tennis court as well as an ever-changing set of props – from badminton rackets to ping pong, tennis and basket balls – hint at the sport element in each of the images; but that’s only where the reality of the sport depiction stops and the whimsy of Eliška‘s photo fiction begins…

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