Ronit Porat, Israel : A Moment of fragility

“Sport furnishes us with myths, heroes and villains, with situations rife with emotions, anxiety, sorrow and joy.
And all that presented in the form of a more or less understandable story. It is life in a regulated, stylized concentrated form.
The narrative qualities of a contest, of a race or even a complete sport career and the way in which these interrelate may well be the driving force behind the popularity of sport" (from the Sports issue of "foam" Magazine) .
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But what happened when the life behind the career is not what we see on the field or on the screen of television? Many times there is a personal story that many of us don't know. Sometimes reaching all the goals and winning the prizes and the fame can hurt physically and mentally.
In my work i am capturing samples from YouTube, I am looking for a moment that capture an emotion or a moment of vulnerability on the people who are already an icon in the sports world. So when i enlarge it they almost fall apart, they are pixels.
In the 1988 Seoul Olympic games Greg Louganis cracked his head on the diving board and hit the water with a big splat, years later in 1995 Louganis revealed the world that he had AIDS, and had been HIV-positive during the 1988 Games. In the picture it is just a few seconds after it happened. It’s a moment when he lost his control on his body. Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a quarter-final match in Hamburg. After the stabbing she never came back fully to her own capability.
I am asking questions not only about sport or the violence of it but about photography.
When Thomas Ruff was using digital techniques it seems that he is unafraid to try something new.
I am capturing the images from YouTube, It is aesthetically driven and quite pure but it all relates to physical experience, either through the computer screen or the observation of the human condition or the subtle climactic changes that affect our environment, i think it is photography.