This is an incredible moment. Rare are images where elite western female fighters and elite Thai female fighters are together like this. Sylvie developed a friendship with Sawsing during her Muay Khao Summit, spending 3 weeks together. Here we came to photograph her fight in Bangkok, and Sylvie came over to help adjust the lobloo guard. There is something poetic here, as women attempt to fight for a deserved space within masculine coded Muay Thai, in Thailand.
I just love this photograph. Mentor and legend Karuhat looking on as Sylvie shadows before the mirror, not long before getting into the ring at thapae stadium in Chiang Mai. So many details come through in this frame. Edited in what I call my Titian Palette of colors.
