This project aims to find some answers to why people are increasingly more attracted to the sport of climbing. In the last few years the sport has seen an increasing number of practitioners and sport specific gyms spread across the world. It has also been put in the spotlight with documentaries such as Free Solo and Dawn Wall making their way to mainstream platforms. And to top it all, it became an Olympic sport in the Tokyo games of 2020.
So for this project I intend to approach the community, photograph climbers and ask them a few questions regarding their practise of the sport. I want to invite people to share their love of climbing and to show me their gear, which in a way reveals their dedication and investment to the practice.
In order to do so, I want to do portraits of these people and to ask them to write answers to the following questions on a piece of paper:
1) What is the main thing that draws you to climbing/bouldering?
2) How do you feel when you are on the wall?
3) What does climbing give back to you?