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JL - Cheerleaders
Cheerleaders
Members of the University of Kentucky cheerleading squad practicing their routine on their Lexington campus grounds in Kentucky, United States, Aug. 23, 2005. There are an estimated 3 million cheerleaders in the U.S. and cheerleading is a staple of American high school and collegiate sports. The University of Kentucky cheerleading squad is the best in the country; the team has won the national championships 14 times in the past 20 years.
Photo by: Joachim Ladefoged / VII
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
23/08/2005 6614
23/08/2005
JL - Cheerleaders
Cheerleaders
Members of the University of Kentucky cheerleading squad practicing their routine on their Lexington campus grounds in Kentucky, United States, Aug. 23, 2005. There are an estimated 3 million cheerleaders in the U.S. and cheerleading is a staple of American high school and collegiate sports. The University of Kentucky cheerleading squad is the best in the country; the team has won the national championships 14 times in the past 20 years.
Photo by: Joachim Ladefoged / VII
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
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6616
JL - Sex Workers, Congo
Congo: Sex Workers
A portrait of a sex worker under her mosquito net in her bedroom in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, Aug. 15, 2005. She shares a tiny compound in Kinshasa with eight other prostitutes; here they live, eat, sleep and have sex with their clients.
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
15/08/2005 6616
15/08/2005
JL - Sex Workers, Congo
Congo: Sex Workers
A portrait of a sex worker under her mosquito net in her bedroom in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, Aug. 15, 2005. She shares a tiny compound in Kinshasa with eight other prostitutes; here they live, eat, sleep and have sex with their clients.
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
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6617
JL - Mirror
Bodybuilding
Contestants at the Danish Bodybuilding Championships in Roskilde, May 5, 2001. The world of bodybuilding is, for some, a surreal vaudeville sideshow. For its participants it is a passionate way of life.
Through the months and years of training there have been many sacrifices; no alcohol, no sweets, and no fatty foods. At the championships, image is the only thing that counts. Many of the bodybuilders have not eaten any salt for the past week. Salt attracts water, and it is vital that the muscles contain no water what-so-ever. A day before the judging the competitors eat rice cookies and take energy drinks laced with vodka. The cookies suck the last drops of water from our muscles, the alcohol makes the blood run faster and the veins look bigger.
To look good on stage they wear a tanning cream, in order for the shadows to be seen more clearly. This has to be done five times to achieve the correct colour. As each coat takes thirty minutes to apply, many of the competitors sleep with the fake sun tan.
In the final hours before the judging begins, the bodybuilders gather in the basement. The atmosphere is tense and the air is thick with sweat and the musty smell of cocoa oil used to add shine to naked flesh.
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
05/05/2001 6617
05/05/2001
JL - Mirror
Bodybuilding
Contestants at the Danish Bodybuilding Championships in Roskilde, May 5, 2001. The world of bodybuilding is, for some, a surreal vaudeville sideshow. For its participants it is a passionate way of life.
Through the months and years of training there have been many sacrifices; no alcohol, no sweets, and no fatty foods. At the championships, image is the only thing that counts. Many of the bodybuilders have not eaten any salt for the past week. Salt attracts water, and it is vital that the muscles contain no water what-so-ever. A day before the judging the competitors eat rice cookies and take energy drinks laced with vodka. The cookies suck the last drops of water from our muscles, the alcohol makes the blood run faster and the veins look bigger.
To look good on stage they wear a tanning cream, in order for the shadows to be seen more clearly. This has to be done five times to achieve the correct colour. As each coat takes thirty minutes to apply, many of the competitors sleep with the fake sun tan.
In the final hours before the judging begins, the bodybuilders gather in the basement. The atmosphere is tense and the air is thick with sweat and the musty smell of cocoa oil used to add shine to naked flesh.
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
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6615
JL - The Albanians
The Albanians
A young Kosovar Albanian boy jumps into an artificial lake outside Gnijljane, Kosovo, June 25, 1999. After the 1997 collapse of Albania's economy, widespread looting and ethnic conflict broke out in Kosovo, a majority Albanian province in southern Serbia, which led to the mass exodus of thousands of ethnic Albanians in 1998 and early 1999; nearly all of these 850,000 refugees returned to Kosovo starting in mid-1999, many seeking revenge against the Serbs.
Photo by: Joachim Ladefoged / VII
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
25/06/1997 6615
25/06/1997
JL - The Albanians
The Albanians
A young Kosovar Albanian boy jumps into an artificial lake outside Gnijljane, Kosovo, June 25, 1999. After the 1997 collapse of Albania's economy, widespread looting and ethnic conflict broke out in Kosovo, a majority Albanian province in southern Serbia, which led to the mass exodus of thousands of ethnic Albanians in 1998 and early 1999; nearly all of these 850,000 refugees returned to Kosovo starting in mid-1999, many seeking revenge against the Serbs.
Photo by: Joachim Ladefoged / VII
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII