On a holiday to Provence I went to a bullfight in the Arena in Arles. Bulls were not killed here. They had rings on the horns that the participants had to try to remove. To get a ring of a horn is a matter of timing your run and change direction. It was a more innocent form of bullfighting, although I was not going to enjoy anything from taking part in something like that. There was a big risk that the participants could be hit by the horns.
The pictures lay unused in a folder on my PC until one day I saw some photos on the Internet. A Russian photographer named Igor Amelkovic, who mainly photographs erotic pictures of women, caught my interest. In some of his pictures there were women expressing strength, and I found that interesting in relation to my pictures.
I contacted Igor through his website and asked if he would accept that I use his pictures to merge with mine. He said yes, and I now downloaded the most interesting pictures and removed everything except the people. They were now put together in Photoshop, and that is what these pictures came out of.
Go to Igor Amelkovic’s website.