PUNCH: A Visual Story
An intimate look into the world of Boxing in New York, Berlin, and Lisbon.
It’s an immersive and dark visual narrative that follows Boxing fighters from the training and preparation phase to the thrill of the fight, and the moment of victory.
Printed in a fabric-like burgundy cover, tactile and rugged, this dramatic work captures the vivid details of a classic sport and its universal and timeless influence on popular visual culture. Official Selection and Honorable Mention at the International Photography Awards 2023.
Hardcover, 30 x 25cm, 128 pages including a booklet, English.
Lisbon, 2022.
"This story never changes, and yet it never ceases to engage the eye with its infinite variations. This work is a masterful capture of light and darkness, literally and in metaphor, in a way that is both unique and in line with the great classics."
In the genre of cult photography books, distilling the essence of Boxing's gritty aesthetics into a tangible narrative, this book delves into the sport with a sharp, unapologetic lens. An undiluted perspective, a minimalist style, allowing the complexity of the scenes to breathe through a clear, respectful gaze. Bürgin’s approach goes down to the core of boxing—sweat, blood, anticipation — framing the raw spectacle of boxing with a clarity that's as striking as the sport itself.
This book edition has an assertive and unusual physicality. Its tactile and rugged burgundy cover translates the visceral, unyielding portrait of urban grit and grandeur. This work dissects the theatrics and the emotions of Boxing to reveal the underlying narratives, in a blend of documentary verve and enduring iconography.
TITLE | PUNCH: A Visual Story
Photography | Jürgen Bürgin
Text | Jürgen Bürgin, Yuri Lopes Pereira
Year | Lisbon, 2022
ISBN | 978-989-53612-0-5
Print Run | 1000
About the artistJÜRGEN BÜRGIN
Jürgen Bürgin, born in 1971, is an author and photographer in Berlin, Germany. The aesthetics of his images stems from his decades of involvement with cinema; he explores ways of telling stories with his street photographs by capturing spontaneous street scenes. His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including the South Street Seaport Museum in New York, the Fotogalerie Friedrichshain in Berlin, the RAW Gallery in Rotterdam, the Amerika Haus in Tübingen and the Central European House of Photography in Bratislava. In the autumn of 2016, his first book was published, entitled Urban Fever – Scenes from City Life.